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Re:IPv6 Is Hard by vel0city on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:05PM (#43070666)
> incoming connections are not routable by default

Tons of firewalls ship with this as a default logic, it doesn't require NAT in the slightest.

Re:IPv6 Is Hard by kiririn on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:35PM (#43073926)
Parent poster is making the (good and underrated) point that NAT makes this logic failsafe: Turn an IPv6 firewall off and you’ve got all incoming connections allowed. Turn IPv4 NAT off and you’ve got no connectivity at all
Re:IPv6 Is Hard by vel0city on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:11PM (#43074189)
So gate it behind a "here be dragons" option or hide it in the GUI entirely for the basic home version.
Re:IPv6 Is Hard by pferde on Monday February 17, 2025 @05:41AM (#43077403)
Or make the "turned off" state block all traffic, just like closing a water valve, or a road gate. I never understood why network firewalls did not default to this.
Re:IPv6 Is Hard by kiririn on Monday February 17, 2025 @06:29AM (#43077755)
Turning off the firewall could just as easily be a unnoticed configuration error that causes it to die on startup