On 09/09/2010 11:53 PM, James Knott wrote:
John E. Perry wrote:
It will be much easier for_you_. It will have little effect on me; Netgear took care of the complexities for me in_much_ better fashion than I could have myself. I fully expect Netgear will take care of even the reduced complexity for me when they sell me my next one. IPv6 makes things much easier for you and Netgear; it will have little direct effect on me.
Please explain the difference to you in how Netgear would provide a NAT router vs one that's configured to block incoming traffic to a range of addresses. I'd expect most people couldn't tell the difference.
I won't be able to tell the difference myself for a while. Netgear sold me a v4 system that I could configure without knowing all the nasty little details of network management. I had to learn just enough to understand what the various options meant, and I had a working home network. I've since learned a lot more, but that's because I'm interested. When Netgear updates my router to v6, or, if they can't, I have to buy an IPv6-capable router, I fully expect Netgear to provide me the user manual that tells me exactly how to configure my home lan. Who knows -- they may even make it look the same to me. It could hardly be much easier than configuring my present router. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org