[olug] Ipv6 help/pointers

[Obi-Wan]

On 07/24/2013 04:27 PM, Lou Duchez wrote:
> IPv6:
> your ISP won't be providing an IP address so much as a 64-bit network 
> space
> router will not perform NAT -- 128-bit addresses contain enough 
> information to be routable on both the private and public sides
> router will still perform most of its usual functions -- gateway, 
> firewall, etc -- it just won't need NAT to perform them

So does this mean that IPv6 CAN'T do NAT, even if you wanted to for 
security obfuscation?  I'd really rather the rest of the world not know 
anything about the internals of my home network.

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