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The question above for the most part, been reading up on it. Also want to it for learning purposes.

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[–] mvee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No, I like living in my nat cocoon so I don't have to worry as much about all the devices on my network. Jk it's turned on, but I don't usually enable it on devices

[–] dnzm@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you!!

If you don't want your devices to be accessible from the internet, you want a firewall. Treating NAT like a firewall is a bad idea.

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

But still, if I understand correctly, with NAT you can just use one firewall for your router and with IPv6 you'd need a firewall for each of your devices. This seems like a lot more to manage, right? But maybe I still don't understand the concept of IPv6.

Edit: Apparently I don't understand the concept of IPv6.

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That's not correct, but it shouldn't preclude you from applying defence in depth.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago

Firewall and NAT are separate concepts. You can still have a firewall on your router when using IPv6. I don't know how many consumer-grade routers handle it well though.

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