Re: VPN over IPv6

2016-04-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:09:58PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote: On 04/14/2016 08:38 PM, John Hasler wrote: Philippe Clérié wrtes: I thought it somewhat strange since I believe IPv6 essentially removes the need for VPN. How? Well, it's just the way IPv6 works. By now, I suspect most IPv4 n

Re: VPN over IPv6

2016-04-14 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2016-04-15 05:09 keltezéssel, Philippe Clérié írta: > By now, I suspect most IPv4 networks use private addresses, i.e. > 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/16, 192.168.0.0/24. So, it makes sense to have a > VPN between two different networks with such addresses so that they can > communicate. > > With IPv6, e

Re: VPN over IPv6

2016-04-14 Thread Philippe Clérié
ld be directly accessible to each other, obviating the need for VPN or NAT for that matter. Plus IPv6 is already encrypted. [*] There are reserved address blocks but not for private addressing. So what might be a use case for VPN over IPv6? The need for a Virtual Private Network. For exam

Re: VPN over IPv6

2016-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Philippe Clérié wrtes: > I thought it somewhat strange since I believe IPv6 essentially removes > the need for VPN. How? > So what might be a use case for VPN over IPv6? The need for a Virtual Private Network. For example I might have cash registers in multiple stores and want th

Re: VPN over IPv6

2016-04-14 Thread Andy Smith
gt; case for VPN over IPv6? I can't comment on the blog author's motivations as I haven't seen the article you mention, but a VPN is useful any time you need to join your network to another network in a secure and authenticated manner. It doesn't really matter what protocols are

VPN over IPv6

2016-04-14 Thread Philippe Clérié
This morning, on my Planet Debian feed, I saw a post from someone using OpenVPN on IPv6. I thought it somewhat strange since I believe IPv6 essentially removes the need for VPN. So what might be a use case for VPN over IPv6? -- Philippe -- The trouble with common sense it that it is so