Subj : win xp ipv6 firewall
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Jan 24 2016 10:55:27

Hello Bj”rn,

On Saturday January 23 2016 22:40, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> A firewall is not _forwarding_ a port.

 BF>    Even if it's in Swedish I think that you can see that I'm
 BF> forwarding e.g. port 8000 (Shoutcast) to 192.168.0.220. The computer
 BF> that is doing this is 192.168.0.1.

 BF> http://felten.se/fw.jpg

No problem with the Swedish, and yes, I can see a NAPT function there. I confess, I was not aware XP could do this. I still say, that is not a firewall function, but a router function.

I am also not surprised this part is IPv4 only. NAT is a kludge to have many devices share an IP address. You neither need nor want that for IPv6.


Cheers, Michiel

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