[OpenWrt-Devel] Firewall settings must be manually changed for 6to4

Alex Henrie alexhenrie24 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 22:08:48 EST 2018


On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 4:40 AM Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I recently set up an OpenWrt 18.06.1 router at a place where the ISP
> > does not provide native IPv6, but does provide their own 6to4
> > tunnelling server. I installed 6to4 and ip-full on the router and
> > configured WAN6, but was puzzled as to why IPv6 wasn't working until I
> > discovered that the default firewall settings block forwarded traffic.
> > Changing "Forward" from "reject" to "accept" under "General Settings"
> > resolved the problem.
>
> This is a huge security issue, you should not do that, ever.
> You likely need both an ingress rule allowing protocol 41 traffic and
> join the wan6 interface to the existing wan zone.

I didn't see an option in LuCI to allow protocol 41 traffic. How do I
set that up?

-Alex

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