[PLUG] ipv6 router and firewall troubles

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:10:50AM -0700, nathan w wrote:
> there's been enough buzz around ipv6 lately that i figured i'd better
> start playing with it right away to be fully prepared for later.
> 
> i got a tunnel from hurricane electric, and set up my nas with radvd to
> lease out addresses within my subnet.
> 
> everything seems to be working properly, and i can see my inet6 addr in
> ifconfig when i'm on a client (my laptop).
> 
> what's strange about it is that i can only connect to ipv6 hosts
> (ipv6.google.com) if i drop the firewall on the router...
> 
> for the life of me i cannot find a decent guide on how to keep the
> firewall up and permit the routed traffic...
> 
> any advice on what may be going wrong?
 
This page on firewalling form SixXS - IPv6 Deployment folks may be helpful:
http://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=firewalled

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