Is it possible to block ipv6 auto configuration entering the tinc tunnel?

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Thu Feb 23 10:48:13 CET 2017


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:51:49PM +0000, HÃ¥vard Rabbe wrote:

> thank you for looking in to this. I haven't tried it before now. I cant get it to work.
> 
> after running the commands you suggest I get this when I run ip6tables --list-rules
> 
> root at JOTVPN:~# ip6tables --list-rules
> -P INPUT ACCEPT
> -P FORWARD ACCEPT
> -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
> -A FORWARD -i vpn -p ipv6-icmp -m icmp6 --icmpv6-type 133 -j DROP
> -A FORWARD -o vpn -p ipv6-icmp -m icmp6 --icmpv6-type 134 -j DROP
> 
> Do you have any other ideas?

It could be I have the direction of the ICMP messages wrong. Try adding:

ip6tables -A FORWARD -o vpn -p ipv6-icmp -m icmp6 --icmpv6-type 133 -j DROP
ip6tables -A FORWARD -i vpn -p ipv6-icmp -m icmp6 --icmpv6-type 134 -j DROP

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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