Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

Wed Jan 12 20:54:19 UTC 2011

Miquel,

     Almost no home users have an IPv6 connection currently and the ones 
that do are the extreme outliers.  IPv6 gear (depending on the 
deployment method) will hopefully handle this well, but no I haven't 
seen any that did a default drop all.  In truth most of the CPE I've 
seen don't even run v6 well even if their marketing claims otherwise.  
However, v6 is an entirely different generation of gear that will 
_hopefully_ get things right since they will _hopefully_ avoid NAT.  
Having said that so far the smoothest (from an end user perspective) way 
of moving forward is often 4 to 6 in the home and I expect that to be 
dirt common for very long time in the future.

On 1/12/2011 3:37 PM, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article<xs4all.4D2E0B77.9060504 at ispalliance.net>,
> Scott Helms<khelms at ispalliance.net>  wrote:
>> Few home users have a stateful firewall configured and AFAIK none of the
>> consumer models come with a good default set of rules much less a drop
>> all unknown.
> The v6 capable CPEs for home users I've seen so far all include
> stateful firewalling with inbound default deny.
>
> (including the one I'm using right now)
>
> Is your experience with such CPEs any different ?
>
> Mike.
>


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