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Topic: How to Access M0n0wall v1.32 WebGUI via IPv6  (Read 3936 times)
« on: June 02, 2010, 19:25:15 »
hastingsc *
Posts: 5

Today I tried to get IPv6 working on the WAN interface of my M0n0wall
1.32 installation so that I could access the WebGUI via IPv6 (I can
currently access it via IPv4 just fine).

I enabled IPv6, statically configured the IPv6 addresses on both the WAN
and LAN interfaces (even though I won't be using IPv6 on LAN, I read an
earlier post that indicated you needed to configure IPv6 addresses on
both interfaces in order for it to work on M0n0wall).  While I would much
prefer to have my WAN IPv6 address autoconfigured via SLAAC, that doesn't
appear to be a supported option in the M0n0wall interface at the moment.

I'm running on a fully IPv6 enabled network here.  Our routers broadcast
RA's and all client systems autoconfigure their IPv6 addresses via SLAAC,
so I disabled RA broadcast on both of my M0n0wall interfaces.

I also added in a blanket exception into the IPv6 firewall config to
allow ALL inbound/outbound IPv6 traffic to pass on both the WAN and LAN
interfaces.

However, for some reason IPv6 just doesn't seem to work.  I can't ping6
anything successfully, not even ::1, on either the WAN or LAN
interfaces.  Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong or forgetting?

Thanks!
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2010, 23:53:54 »
hastingsc *
Posts: 5

Nevermind, it turns out that when I'd statically configured my IPv6 address info, I accidentally fat fingered (i.e., misconfigured) my hosts IPv6 gateway address.  Guess that's not hard to do with such long addresses I suppose.  Of course if I could have turned on SLAAC autoconfig for my WAN interface I wouldn't have run into this problem.  In any case, I can now access my M0n0wall WebGUI via the WAN interface using IPv6!  It just works like a charm now, so I'm very happy!
 
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