Vodafone station: IPv6 host exposure doesn't work

[at3]

Hi everyone,
I'm using the Vodafone Station as my router at home. I have been trying to set up IPv6 port exposure and it doesn't work. Here's what I did:
- I have a device connected to the router listening on connections to port xyz.
- I set up port forwarding on the router with the listening device's MAC address, UDP protocol, and port xyz.
- I tried connecting to the device using the device's IPv6 address from outside my network. With the vodafone station's firewall active, it doesn't work. With the firewall inactive, it does work.
 
So everything is setup up correctly, except that the router does not correctly perform the port forwarding that I configured. I have seen many people report the same problems, it seems like this is due to a firmware bug in the router where the UDP protocol is not forwarded. The way I see it, these are the options:
- Vodafone fixes their firmware -> unfortunately unlikely
- I turn off my firewall -> not going to do it for security reasons
- The vodafone station allows me to do IPv4 port forwarding
 
Thus I'd like to know how/who/where I can ask for the third option.
 
Thank you!

[El_hazard_13]

I got the same problem: IPv6 host exposure doesn't work .

Saying, that "unfortunately there is no other option. Sorry"  is your one and only solution?!?! Turning off the complete Firewall for the Router is in your mind a valid option??? (In my case I had to do this to get my instance in Foundry VTT to work) Therefore I can also Say "Sorry, Vodafone! Are you serious?!" and immediatlely ask the question "Are you sure that this is the only solution?" In my opinion it´s quite a shame, to offer a service that 1) doesn´t work and 2) no one cares to even think about to fix it. As a customer who pays money for your service I can only say: Please, put some effort into this to fix it!

Is it that I sound rude? I think not, because in my opinion it´s your job that your options - namely a working IPv6 host exposure - should be working effortlessly - and not to say "unfortunately there is no other option. Sorry".

With best regards

[MrKropf]

Hi El Hazard,

i just bought Foundry VTT yesterday and now found this post while trying to get it to work.

Did you find a solution for the Problem?

Best Regards

[Shadowassassin]

then why there is this ipv6 host exposure function??? And why it doesn't work properly? Why has this *piep*ty gigastation more bugs than function?

[reneromann]

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@Shadowassassin  schrieb:

then why there is this ipv6 host exposure function??? And why it doesn't work properly? Why has this *piep*ty gigastation more bugs than function?

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Because these bugs are irrelevant for most of the customers that only want to surf the internet a bit and don't need that kind of extra functions. If you need them, get yourself your own cable router and/or switch to the rental FritzBoxes -- but as this bug (as so many others) have been in the firmware of the Vodafone Stations for so long, I doubt that they ever will get fixed.