On Friday 9. July 2010 00.20.29 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On jeu., 2010-07-08 at 19:29 +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > IPv6 will not remove firewalls. People will have unique addresses, but > > reachability is not a guarantee. > > And with IPv6 end-to-end is (again) the norm, not the exception. The > filtering should be done on the box itself, not at the perimeter.
Uh... no.
The IPv6 protocol makes NAT unnecessary, but firewalls at perimeters will
continue to exist. I doubt companies will allow any packet from the Internet
to reach their intranets.
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