Dave Howorth wrote:
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 16:58 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Of course the big improvement for users is the ability to directly access a computer behind the firewall, without messing with port forwarding
To me, one of the advantages of NAT is that it makes it more difficult to attack my machines because they can't be addressed.
Yes, NAT implicitly prevents that, and with IPv6 your firewall will still do so. Even without one, anyone attempting to gain access will have an impossible job to do - you will (typically) have a /64 network, a mind-boggling 18'446'744'073'709'551'616 addresses. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.7°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org