[olug] Ipv6 help/pointers

[Kevin D. Snodgrass]

> From: Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Ipv6 help/pointers
> 
> 
> 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.

Note: I have exactly 0 IPv6 experience...

Can't you setup your residential router to be IPv6 on the internet side and 
DHCP/nat IPv4 addresses on the inside, so basically the only difference is the 
*router* gets an IPv6?

From the presentation that was giving at an OLUG meeting (last year I think) I 
got the impression that IPv6 meant all devices were "visible" outside your DMZ.

I *LIKE* not having to setup iptables or whatever on every machine in my living 
room data center. :-)  Makes life so much less complicated...

FWIW, my router has exactly 0 ports open to the outside.

Kevin D. Snodgrass