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Knowledge Base document #3732
FRITZ!Box 7682
This support document is available for the following products:
- FRITZ!Box 7690
- FRITZ!Box 7590 AX
- FRITZ!Box 7590
- FRITZ!Box 7583 VDSL
- FRITZ!Box 7583
- FRITZ!Box 7530 AX
- FRITZ!Box 7530
- FRITZ!Box 7520
- FRITZ!Box 7510
- FRITZ!Box 7490
- FRITZ!Box 6890 LTE
- FRITZ!Box 6850 5G
- FRITZ!Box 6850 LTE
- FRITZ!Box 6820 LTE
- FRITZ!Box 6690 Cable
- FRITZ!Box 6670 Cable
Does the FRITZ!Box transmit IPv6 data over VPN?
The FRITZ!Box can establish VPN connections (IPSec, WireGuard) over both IPv4 and IPv6. This means that VPN connections can also be established if the FRITZ!Box is operated on an internet connection with Dual-Stack Lite (DS-Lite).
Whether IPv6 data are transmitted within the VPN tunnel depends on the VPN solution.
- With WireGuard, devices in the remote network can be accessed via IPv4 and IPv6. However, IPv6 internet access is possible only when the VPN server assigns the client global IPv6 addresses (Global Unicast) and routes the IPv6 traffic into the internet. FRITZ!Boxes and many VPN servers and providers do not support this. In these cases no IPv6 internet access is possible via the VPN tunnel.
Note:To transmit IPv6 data via the VPN tunnel, you must reconfigure WireGuard connections that were configured before FRITZ!OS 8. We want to make internet access via IPv6 possible via a remote FRITZ!Box in a future FRITZ!OS update.
- With IPSec, the FRITZ!Box can only transmit IPv4 data within the VPN tunnel. Via IPSec it is not possible to access IPv6 internet services or devices in the remote network that can only be reached via IPv6.