Thanks, everyone, for the discussion! It looks like there are some possibilities. Thank goodness I don't have to convert today! By the time I do have to convert, maybe I'll know enough. ;-)
Randy Kramer On Monday 11 July 2011 07:42:15 pm William Hopkins wrote: > There are a few issues here.. first and foremost is your desire to > 'hide' your computers. There's no reason for that -- currently some > ISPs try to make you pay more to run multiple computers, which is > wrong. But in IPv6 this restriction *will not* exist, I assure you. > Why else would they assign /64s, /56s or /48s ? > > Second, no, a firewall won't help. But some clever routing could. You > can still create private networks with IPv6 and if you don't allow > them to route to the internet, they won't reach the internet. Then if > you wanted, you could set up a SOCKS or HTTP proxy and configure your > software on the private networks to use it. All the traffic would > appear to come from the proxy. > > It's a lot of work, comparatively. But then again, what you're asking > for is a special exception to the way computers are supposed to > connect to the internet (in both v4 AND v6.. NAT was a hack). > > If you elaborate on why you want the hiding feature, perhaps someone > can suggest an alternative you haven't considered (: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107131704.34334.rhkra...@gmail.com
