IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment

Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by rlpb on Monday January 04, 2016 @12:23PM (#10836869)

> The most reliable way is to rely on your system firewall to prompt you to open up a port when an application binds to it...But the whole point it to take the router out of the loop for this, and only use it as a coarse firewall.

I don't trust, and doubt I'll ever trust, the firewall on my Smart TV, even if it had one. That's because I don't trust that it'll ever receive timely security updates. So I must use [the firewall on] a central router.

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Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by solidangle on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:54PM (#10838047)

Then trust your router's firewall. And if you don't trust your router's firewall build your own router (or install OpenWRT on store-bought router).

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Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by hueving on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:54PM (#10839792)

Which puts us back at square one with upnp to open up holes on the router.

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