Michael Casey <michaelcasey73@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If I would have an IPv6 address [home pc, behind a router - supporting > ipv6 e.g.: openwrt, ISP gives ipv6], then I can see an IPv6 address with > ifconfig, on the PC e.g.: "Z" > So that's my "very unique address". - "Z" > > Can that be "seen on the internet", the "Z" address? so anyone can ping me > from outside, or do an nmap? If your firewall allows such mapping and you have a global ipv6 address then yes, you can be pinged, nmap-ed etc. Here is what a globally mapped IPv6 would look like: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:C5:EB:99 inet addr:192.83.197.13 Bcast:192.83.197.127 Mask:255.255.255.128 inet6 addr: 2001:5a8:4:7d0:20f:b0ff:fec5:eb99/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:fec5:eb99/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:45262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:40316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:43622749 (41.6 MiB) TX bytes:21376741 (20.3 MiB) Interrupt:22 Base address:0x2400 In general, I think you'll want to make sure you run system-config-firewall on all your machines and only allow a minimum of services that you *really* trust on your IPv6 connected clients. My machines tend to only allow incoming ssh and nothing else unless the data stream is opened from the client side. > Or are there private addresses what the router gives to my pc.: eg.: with > ipv4 a router could give 192.168.1.10... and that IP couldn't be > pinged/nmapped from outside (More Secure???) > Because I heard that there will be no NAT with IPv6? NAT isn't needed if all you want is firewalling. If you stick to operating systems that supply usable built-in firewalls you'll be ok. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Fedora-11 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines