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Re:Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-s... by derefr on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:35AM (#20534265)
You configure your router to not use NAT for IPv6, and get your ISP to provide you more than a /128, is how. This is why industry is adopting it and consumer devices aren’t.

(IPv6 space is big enough that there’s no reason that residential ISPs shouldn’t be assigning everyone larger prefix ranges by default, but that doesn’t mean they will. They probably think they can up-sell it. Thread is a great, simple protocol for the hypothetical world where the residential ISPs give up on this practice. It’s not so great for the world we’re in, unless you’re already using some separate VPN overlay network.)

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Re:Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-s... by amaccuish on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:38PM (#20536079)
The problem for me in the UK is that most ISPs are dynamically allocating prefixes using DHCP-PD. So I've not got static address I can put in my firewall for the equivalent of ipv4 port forwarding.
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