Subj : Re: Just how big is IPv6?
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Deon George
Date : Tue Dec 24 2024 14:21:34

  Re: Re: Just how big is IPv6?
  By: Kurt Weiske to Warpslide on Mon Dec 23 2024 03:22 pm

Howdy,

 > Interesting post - thanks for sharing. IPv6 feels very old-school, the
 > intention was to put everything on the internet and to make everything
 > directly accessible. This was long before the botnet era - imagine if
 > every device on your LAN had an external IP?

Well the design of IP6 is that everything does have an external IP, and the role of the router changes from being a NAT router/firewall, to just a router/firewall.

I'm looking forward to the day we can turn of IP4 - and I know it probably will be a long time before we get there - but maintaining 2 addresses technologies is a pain.


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