IPv6 and the Firewall
More and more services are enabling IPv6.
More and more ISP's are supporting it to their end users.
And you should to!
Pro: Much Larger Address Space
Pro: Virtually Unlimited Host Addresses per Prefix
Pro: Stateless Autoconfig
Draw: No More IP Scanning
Please check the sources for more information about IPv6
Sources:
Long story short. You don't need to portforward in IPv6
Why? Cause your ISP will give you a /64 prefix 2 to the power of 64 IPv6 adresses.
This is my IPv6 subnet.
So you don't really need to port-forward. But there still is a Firewall that you'll need to configure.
You'll most likely get a screen like this or with similar options.
accessing a service:
Offering a service
Sources:
Destination: Host
accessing a service:
1024:65535
offering a service:
Ex. SSH --> 22
Mode:
Accept
open up the firewall
Drop
Drop everything close the firewall nothing will get through send no response
Block
Block the packet but your nice and send a reply to the client that the packet is being blocked
Sources:
BitCoin: 18qNZg38LJ3DwYCuqXqhtYCa9T4fk39BtK
Website: IPv6 | 7ol
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