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Re: NG Firewalls & IPv6


From: Jima <nanog () jima us>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 23:44:54 -0600

Hey Joe,

I don't know how next-gen they'd be considered, but I've had reasonably good luck with Cisco ASA (v9+), and to a lesser 
degree Juniper ScreenOS (v6.3+). Modern-ish ASA does v6-only pretty well; ScreenOS has more v4-dependent nuances, that 
I've found.

I do like the NAT64 support in ASA (although it sadly doesn't support the Well-Known Prefix) -- no love in ScreenOS, as 
far as I've ever found.

- Jima

On Apr 2, 2018, at 16:58, Joe Klein <jsklein () gmail com> wrote:

All,

At security and network tradeshows over the last 15 years, I have asked
companies if their products supported "IPv6". They all claimed they did,
but were unable to verify any successful installations. Later they told me
it was on their "Roadmap" but were unable to provide an estimated year,
because it was a trade secret.

Starting this last year at BlackHat US, I again visited every product
booth, asking if their products supported dual-stack or IPv6 only
operations. Receiving only the same unsupported answers, I decided to focus
on one product category.

To the gurus of the NANOG community, What are your experiences with
installing and managing Next Generations firewalls? Do they support IPv6
only environments? Details? Stories?

If you prefer not to disparage those poor product companies, please contact
me off the list.

Thanks,

Joe Klein

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