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Re: AWS and IPv6


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:13:49 -0800

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 3:52 PM Matt Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org> wrote:
Which is, fundamentally, half the problem with IPv6 in AWS.  I'd have much
preferred that they'd added the ability to do actually-useful IPv6 routing
rather than IPv6-only subnets, which strikes me as more of a toy than
something *actually* useful.

Yeah, they don't even have a practical way to implement a firewall
instance for IPv6. Unless you want to mirror 1:many NAT for IPv6 like
you do IPv4. You just can't route an IPv6 block to an instance. And
with 1:many NAT you wouldn't want public IP addresses inside but AWS
doesn't let you assign ULA addresses inside the subnet, only global
addresses.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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