Windows 7 firewall and IPv6
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Another random Windows 7 fact I learned today – if you disable the Windows 7 firewall, it will also disable IPV6 and Service Hardening. Microsoft’s logic appears to be simply that if a system doesn’t have the Windows firewall enabled, then it should be treated as an insecure machine and not trusted to connect with an IPV6 IPSec tunnel. The obvious flaw in this logic is that many enterprises use other firewalls, which Windows will not account for. Those people will then have ot enable the Microsoft firewall and just put it into a completely accepting state if they want to use IPV6.
