Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Rick Thomas a écrit : It eliminates the need for masquerading and port translation, but it does not eliminate the need for a proper firewall. Unfortunately the plenty of public IPv6 space does not totally eliminate the need for NAT in some situations. Otherwise there would not be

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! Can you provide some specific model numbers? I'll need a box that can do IPv6 tunneling over IPv4, since none of the ISP's I have access to have native IPv6 or any plans for it in the foreseeable future. Of course, it will also need to be able to do basic stateful fire-wall

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/12/11 19:21, Rick Thomas wrote: Please don't top-post. I'm lazy and likely to ignore emails that require effort to read. Thanks! Sorry for the delay in answering - for some reason this had been flagged as spam. Can you provide some specific model numbers? No - sorry, not for those

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 27 dec 11, 01:20:27, Rick Thomas wrote: (Sigh!) ;-\ Now if somebody would just manufacture and sell an inexpensive IPv6-capable SOHO router... /-; (sigh!) Get the cheapest router that supports alternate firmware[1]. As far as I know most of the alternatives already support IPv6. [1]

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-27 Thread keitho
OK I'm a novice, but it seems from my perspective that having adequate addresses is only the tech part of the issue. Verizon and other large ISP's don't want home owners to create servers accessible from outside their homes. If they find out you are doing so they will insist on charging you the

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/12/11 22:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 27 dec 11, 01:20:27, Rick Thomas wrote: (Sigh!) ;-\ Now if somebody would just manufacture and sell an inexpensive IPv6-capable SOHO router... /-; (sigh!) Most of the manufacturers already do (or don't you consider sub-$100AU cheap?) Apple,

address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 26, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 26 dec 11, 21:39:27, Victor Nitu wrote: On 12/26/2011 08:00 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: This is one reason I welcome the switch to IPv6. Just out of curiosity: can you be more specific on this issue? (please excuse me for being a