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Re: Looking for comments


From: Franck Martin <franck () genius com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:58:41 +1200 (FJT)



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From: "Karl Auer" <kauer () biplane com au>
To: nanog () nanog org
Sent: Thursday, 22 July, 2010 4:24:59 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for comments
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 20:37 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
I can throw a COTS d-link box with
address-overloaded NAT on a connection and have reasonably
effective
network security and anonymity in IPv4. Achieving comparable
results
in the IPv6 portion of the dual stack on each of those hosts is
complicated at best.

Actually, it isn't particularly hard at all... Turn on privacy
addressing
on each of the hosts (if it isn't on by default) and then put a
linux
firewall in front of them with a relatively simple ip6tables
configuration
for outbound only.

All respect to someone that knows his stuff, and I do realise that the
OP mentioned small-scale hardware, but in the wider world (and even
the
world of home users as seen from the carrier side) any solution that
says "do <whatever> on every host" is just not workable. As for the
Linux packet filter, that's an exercise for the advanced home user.

On Mac Airport Extreme it is "disallow outside to access internal machines", tick and it is done!


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