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===Testing your IPv6 Firewall===

===Testing your IPv6 Firewall===

As well as ensuring that your IPv6 firewall is enabled it is '''''strongly recommended''''' that you test it is correctly protecting your host. I have received feedback from many users detailing how their default firewall settings either weren't blocking any IPv6 traffic at all (e.g. certain DLINK IPv6 enabled routers) or was leaving critical services open to remote access.  

As well as ensuring that your IPv6 firewall is enabled it is '''''strongly recommended''''' that you actively test that it is correctly protecting your host. I have received feedback from several disgruntled users detailing how their default firewall settings either weren't blocking any IPv6 traffic at all (e.g. some DLINK IPv6 enabled products and certain UK ISP-provided firewalls) or were leaving critical services open for remote access. That is not to say that any of these products are necessarily "broken", or "unfit for purpose", merely that they don't necessarily perform in the same way for IPv6 traffic as they did for IPv4 traffic.  

If you wish to verify the operation of your IPv6 firewall then try my [http://ipv6.chappell-family.com/ipv6tcptest/ IPv6 firewall checker] which checks your IPv6 Ping response and scans a set of user-defined TCP ports.

If you wish to verify the operation of your IPv6 firewall then try my [http://ipv6.chappell-family.com/ipv6tcptest/ IPv6 firewall checker] which checks your IPv6 Ping response and scans a set of user-defined TCP ports.