Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 06/28/2011 06:49 PM, Jim Flanagan pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 6/28/11 5:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
Jim Flanagan wrote:
OK, but what about something like we have now where we have one or more internal computers or devices connected to and protected from outside by our router, but that does have access to the internet for email, browsing, patching, upgrading etc.? Basically a firewall that protects internal computers, and even prevents them from being known or exposed to the internet? How will this be handled by IPv6?
If a device needs to access the internet, it'll need a public address. Hiding behind NAT does nothing that a properly configured firewall can't do. You'd configure the firewall to allow access only to what you want to be available and block everything else, just like with IPv4. Also, NAT breaks a lot of things.
OK, so each device that needs internet access will need/have a separate unique public address? I guess we'll get a block of these from our ISPs?
Probably at a cost. I don't know of any business now a days that doesn't charge extra for every little thing.
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