question regarding over the counter devices

tony at lavanauts.org tony at lavanauts.org
Thu Mar 2 11:53:35 CET 2017


On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> Devices that people buy in electronics stores etc, do they even come with 
> IPv6 turned on by default?
>
> If they do, is firewalling turned on by default?

All the ones I've seen so far have IPv6 off by default.  However, the IPv6 
firewall default is a mixed bag.  I've found most do have the IPv6 
firewall on by default.  My own home router, an older D-Link, has it off 
by default when IPv6 is enabled.

Antonio Querubin
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