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Can we determine from email headers that these two IP6 addresses came from the same person?

I'm trying to determine whether the emails came from the same office or person, but lack the in-depth knowledge of IP6 and understanding of the meaning of the same "subnet prefix". From the ...
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ip6tables state does not allow http connection outside LAN

I have a Debian 11 machine acting as a router (machine A) for IPv6 with WAN (bond0) and LAN (bond1) interface and another Debian 11 machine (machine B) connected to its LAN interface. This setup works ...
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How to properly define ip6tables rule in ansible

On current system I have this rule for ip6tables -A INPUT -d <ip6address> -p udp -m udp --dport <port> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT For new system I wrote an ansible playbook: - name: ...
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Network Security: Hardening IPv6 on Ubuntu Server?

I am familiar with hardening IPv4 on Ubuntu server, but when I use the same rules for IPv6 with ip6tables, the IPv6 connectivity is lost resulting in Destination unreachable: Address unreachable ...
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Disable outgoing IPv6 for specific users on linux

I would like to block outgoing IPv6 connections for specific users on linux machine. I don't want to disable IPv6 for whole system. How can I do it? I can do it using ip6tables and rejecting OUTPUT ...
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ufw route allow in on wg0 out on wg0 to 10.0.0.6/32

I use a WireGuard VPM to reversely connect to my home server via an external entry node. On that entry node, I try to add a firewall rule using ufw. Its purpose is to only allow routing to one and ...
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ipv6 and iptables - setting up basic rules

I have come to realise my IPv6 ports are not going through iptables, and thus are accessible for attacks. I haven't seen any yet, but I'm sure its only a matter of time. As such, I'm trying to shore ...
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Working example of IPv6 NPTv6 ip6tables routing with dynamic WAN address (/128 and /56) to LAN

I am currently using iptables for my home lab router and would like to add IPv6. I have 2 ISPs. My first ISP assigns a /128 to the interface and the ability to request /56. ISP1 is connected to eno1. ...
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Routing ipv6 traffic from LAN to wg0

I have ipv6 connectivity over wg0 (a WireGuard interface), and my LAN has a local ipv6 network. From a desktop (Ubuntu 20.04.1) connected to the router (Ubuntu 20.04.1) with the LAN and wg0 (WireGuard)...
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IPv6 packets not reaching FORWARD table

I have 2 systems A and B linked together using a Strongswan IPv4 IKEv2 VPN. A client (C) connected to A can access the public IPv4 internet via B using the VPN. I am trying to enable C to access the ...
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Separate ip6tables xt_recent

Is is possible to create separate iptables and ip6tables xt_recent? Like how hashlimit is separated to ipt_hashlimit and ip6t_hashlimit. So maybe like xt_recent and x6t_recent.
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ip6tables block thunderbird email [closed]

The following ip6tables block thunderbird from retrieving email from my gmail account: sudo ip6tables -P FORWARD DROP sudo ip6tables -P INPUT DROP sudo ip6tables -P OUTPUT DROP sudo ip6tables -A ...
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ip6tables issue on CentOS 6.10 OpenVZ server: cannot unload modules

Hello friends at Serverfault! I'm having a weird issue with my CentOS 6.10 OpenVZ server (using Virtualizor), as I have enable IPv6 support. This server has basically exactly the same setup as three ...
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How to block incoming ESP traffic with ip6tables

I would like to test my firewall configuration when IPsec traffic is received in my host and I also would like to know how to handle it (drop it at first). For testing reasons, I have deployed two ...
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Can I filter based on a ICMPv6 subtype?

I'm trying to filter out specific ICMPv6 packets and I tried looking at all the possible types options by using the following command: ip6tables -p icmpv6 -h This yields the following types (note ...
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ip6tables is not masquerading source address

The following are my ip6tables rules: # ip6tables -t nat -L -v Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination ...
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Mirror udp traffic for IPv6

I have four Virtual Machines: A, B, C, D. Machines connected by the following way through the Internal Network of Virtual Box A <-> C, B <-> C, D <-> C Machine C - central node ...
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Linux ip6_tables xt_percpu_counter_free (err 0)

Today I wanted install a new server instance with ansible and our existent playbooks. The base system is a Debian 9.4. The firewall role failed, but I do not think that it is an ansible or role ...
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OpenVPN ipv6 working fine until i load ip6table rules

I'm running OpenVPN 2.4.0 on Ubuntu 17.04, This setup is working fine and already described here https://serverfault.com/q/887243. The issue comes when i try to load ip6tables rules through the ...
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ICMPv6 restrictive firewall: losing connectivity over time

The problem: Losing IPv6 connectivity to a remote IP after certain time period without establishing a connection to the remote IP. My setup: I'm running a server with ip6tables firewall that filters ...
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Firewall rule with default policies is not working

I have made a firewall rule bash script as: #!/bin/bash iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP ip6tables -P INPUT DROP ip6tables -P FORWARD ...
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What wrong with snat in nftables?

I have two virtual machines (server, client) with wireguard vpn. When i try ping any IPv6 resource from client packets doesn't return to client. Tcpdump show me ICMP Reply packets in enp0s3 interface ...
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ip6tables rule to allow unrecognized next-header

I have a compliance test that is requiring my node to respond to unrecognized next-headers per RFC 2460. I am running a debian 3.16 kernel. My current firewall implementation is dropping these frames ...
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Ip6tables centos 7 rule not working

The following rules were working for ipv4 addresses in iptables but using the same rules in ip6tables is not working. Currently all ipv6 addresses are being blocked. This rule set should allow https ...
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Disable ICMPv6 Destination Unreachable replies

iptables -I OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j DROP The above command works for IPv4, what should be the command for IPv6 to drop the ICMPv6 destination-unreachable packets. I have ...
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ip6tables blocking outgoing+incoming connections

i just changed to a server with ipv6 and therefore i changed my firewall script. Changing my iptables-script to ip6tables does not seem to work though. This is the ipv6 part which neither allows ...
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Best way to forward whole ipv6 /64 subnet range to single address (on Linux, obv)? [duplicate]

I want to forward incoming connections to any address within an assigned ipv6 /64 subnet on a VPS. Obviously I can't add a billion individual address to the interface, but perhaps I could use a bogus ...
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Rule to allow port 80 using IPV6

My server: 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. Provider: Linode.com. No other firewall is present. I've these rules: *filter # Allow localhost traffic. This rule is for all protocols. -A INPUT -s ::1 -d ::...
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ip6tables forward chain filters all ports

Trying the following on a centos 6 node (running openvz kernel) ip6tables -F ip6tables -X ip6tables -P FORWARD DROP ip6tables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m multiport --dports 21,22,80,443 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -...
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ip6tables port dropping and defaults

On CentOS 6, ip6tables is literally giving a nightmare on this machine. Having ip6tables -P INPUT ACCEPT ip6tables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT ip6tables -P FORWARD ACCEPT with ip6tables -A INPUT -p tcp -m ...
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ruleset iptables- user defined chains [closed]

I am very new in iptables. Learning to use them. I got a hang of some basic commands from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo. However, I didnt find good explanations of examples of a ...
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Using ip6tables with range

I'm trying to ban an ip range with ip6tables. I'm adding this line to /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables -A INPUT -s ::ffff:58.26.318.213 -j DROP But I want to ban everything that starts with 58.26 so that ...
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IP6Tables: How to enable external access to MySQL?

How to enable external access to MySQL with rules on ip6tables? I have tried to the rules below, where after inserted I get access, but when server restart the access remains blocked. :INPUT DROP [2:...
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port forward in INPUT level

I want to change the destination port of the ipv6 packet in the INPUT level. So I tried to use ip6tables with nat in the INPUT level but seems this command does not work # ip6tables -t nat -I INPUT ...
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Differences between iptables and ip6tables processing of packets

I've reviewed a variety of netfilter, iptables, and ip6tables resources. I've searched Google, including StackExchange websites for information, and, I can't find easy or clear links to information ...
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