Subj : I hope a quick quesiton. :)
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Markus Reschke
Date : Sat Sep 24 2016 12:28:48

Hi Michiel!

Sep 24 00:43 2016, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Tony Langdon:

 TL>> Some routers say you do (Fritzboxes use this misleading language), 
 TL>> but yes in reality, there is no port forwarding, just opening up ports 
 TL>> in the packet filter.

 MvdV> Not just the Fritz. My present modem/router, a Cisco EPC3928 does 
 MvdV> it too. It even uses the same "form" to specify an IPv4 port 
 MvdV> forwarding as IPv6 port opening. For each line one can choose 
 MvdV> between IPv4 and IPv6. There are fields for external port range, 
 MvdV> internal IP address, internal port range and protocol (TCP, UDP, 
 MvdV> Both)

I can understand, that vendors are trying to keep things simple for average Joe, but this make-IPv6-fit-into-IPv4-NAT-configuration approach makes it more complicated actually.

ciao,
Markus

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