Re: ipv6 question

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On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:31:37PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> The IPv6 firewalls on Linux are just as good as the IPv4 firewalls.  I
> didn't start participating in IPv6 until I had decent firewalls.  But
> that was 10 years ago now at this point.  That's old old news.

That's not my concern.  My concern is flooding the bloody 'Net with
Sagans of IP addresses and traffic we simply never need to see.  I'm
afraid, with the current IPv6 model, that's all too likely.

> There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on
> different addresses some how bestows upon you some measure of security.

Nope.  Just trying to keep the cr*p out of the public pipes.

Cheers,
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