30 Jan
2011
30 Jan
'11
3:24 p.m.
Richard Dignall wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:17 +0000, "Paul
Stimpson"
<paul(a)stimpsonfamily.co.uk> wrote:
I don't have an el chepo router at home, or wasn't when I purchased it,
but any non-TCP/non-UDP packets seem to get dropped, even on LAN, when I
was playing with IPv6 last the only thing I could do was tunnel over UDP
to each computer, which was a bigger hassle than I was willing to deal
with so I stopped using IPv6 for the time being on my home LAN.
--
Best regards,
Duane
I'm also expecting to see a massive surge in
botnets and spam as
people who don't understand IPv6 are put onto it and don't realise
that the firewall in their PCWorld home router doesn't protect IPv6
machines.
It will be interesting to see what the standard cheapo Netgear/D-Link
router people buy does by default - the very nature of NAT usage in
current routers (evil though NAT is in its own way) does mitigate
somewhat against incoming attacks. Will everyone end up with a publicly
routable IPv6 address for each device in their house? In which case yes,
let's hope they come with decent firewalls enabled out of the box! :)