The question above for the most part, been reading up on it. Also want to it for learning purposes.

  • mvee@lemmy.ml
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    No, I like living in my nat cocoon so I don’t have to worry as much about all the devices on my network. Jk it’s turned on, but I don’t usually enable it on devices

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        1 year ago

        Thank you!!

        If you don’t want your devices to be accessible from the internet, you want a firewall. Treating NAT like a firewall is a bad idea.

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          But still, if I understand correctly, with NAT you can just use one firewall for your router and with IPv6 you’d need a firewall for each of your devices. This seems like a lot more to manage, right? But maybe I still don’t understand the concept of IPv6.

          Edit: Apparently I don’t understand the concept of IPv6.

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            1 year ago

            That’s not correct, but it shouldn’t preclude you from applying defence in depth.

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            1 year ago

            Firewall and NAT are separate concepts. You can still have a firewall on your router when using IPv6. I don’t know how many consumer-grade routers handle it well though.

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      Get a firewall. Malicious STUN, ALG DoS attacks, just these things make your NAT router less secure than you think it is.