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bb88 on Nov 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: IPv6 Is a Nightmare

You're still going to have a firewall, it just won't be NAT based.

Dagger2 on Nov 5, 2020 [–]

NAT isn't even a firewall in the first place. The firewall you need for v6? You've already got it in v4, if you've secured your v4 network.

...which a lot of people haven't, because they falsely believe that NAT by itself is enough to stop all inbound connections to their network.

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