On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 6:36 AM Marco <m...@posteo.de> wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:02:12 +0000 > schrieb Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net>: > > > Why do you believe that having their customer premises equipment do > > this for v6 is any different from having it do default NAT for v4? > > It is additional work and it breaks certain protocols. IPv6 doesn't > need NAT, so why should an ISP do it? > IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4. IPv6 and IPv4 are usually implemented in a dual stack implementation where you have addresses from both protocols. IPv4 is used to transfer data with IPv4 servers and IPv6 is used to transfer data with IPv6 servers.
> I understand SPI firewalls to protect the customer and don't allow > servers inside, but NAT isn't something that is needed to reach that. > > Additionally, I have NEVER seen a provider that does NAT or IPv6 yet. > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
