[olug] Ipv6 help/pointers

[Justin Reiners]

>From what I hear, it will not NAT, that is not the implementation, but you
can just block pings, and such. in a way I am excited, working with SIP is
a huge pain in the wang when behind a NAT. Any decent firewall can filter.
I have started creating network objects on my Barracuda for different
servers and PCs, that will make things much easier.


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> On 07/24/2013 04:27 PM, Lou Duchez wrote:
>
>> IPv6:
>>
>> your ISP won't be providing an IP address so much as a 64-bit network
>> space
>> router will not perform NAT -- 128-bit addresses contain enough
>> information to be routable on both the private and public sides
>> router will still perform most of its usual functions -- gateway,
>> firewall, etc -- it just won't need NAT to perform them
>>
>
> So does this mean that IPv6 CAN'T do NAT, even if you wanted to for
> security obfuscation?  I'd really rather the rest of the world not know
> anything about the internals of my home network.
>
>
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