[Cialug] Slightly OT - IPv6 sillyness

[David Champion]

Not really up on IPv6 yet... but I believe you would still be able to use a
firewall, the same way you could with IPv4, where anything you want to be
"behind" the firewall uses the firewall's IPv6 address as the gateway.

-dc


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Nathan C. Smith <NSmith at hhlawpc.com> wrote:

> It blows the mind how many IPv6 addresses are available.  I think NAT has
> been very helpful for internal address management and device administration
> in small businesses and home networks even though the technology itself is
> considered a kludge.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of L. V. Lammert
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 2:31 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] Slightly OT - IPv6 sillyness
>
> I have been trying to grok IPv6 and how it fits into our infrascture, ..
> and one thing blows my mind - if I understand correctly, there is NO WAY
> TO SETUP A PRIVATE SUBNET? In my mind the first step of any security is to
> put all the user machines on a 10-net behind a firewall doing NAT, which is
> impossible with IPv6, as every v6 address is publicly accessible!
>
> We had a big discussion about this last month, and the IPv6 chap was
> dumbfounded that I even wanted to DO a private network.
>
> Is this really true? How is one *supposed* to create a sane user subnet
> with IPv6?
>
>         Lee
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