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Re: ARIN IPV4 Countdown

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Jul 14 21:43:13 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:33:39 -0400."
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:43:04 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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In message <55A5B873.5010602@xyonet.com>, Curtis Maurand writes:
> 
> Since IPV6 does not have NAT, it's going to be difficult for the layman 
> to understand their firewall.  deployment of ipv4 is pretty simple.  
> ipv6 on the otherhand is pretty difficult at the network level.  yes, 
> all the clients get everything automatically except for the router/firewall.
> 
> -C

Absolute garbage.  CPE already ship with basically the same controls
for IPv6 as for IPv4.  Default block in except reply traffic +
specified holes for services you want to open up to the world.  The
is same paradigm that has been in use in IPv4 for a years now.

Mark
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