theoretically there are Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) http://www.ripe.net/ipv6-address-types/ but i think when ipv6 will be widely used [don't know when:D we got about: 49 days? hmmm... - https://ipv6.he.net/statistics/ ] "they" want that, that every computer must have a public ipv6 address, so that it can be natively accessible by the "outside world" [fixme] - so computers must have good firewalls... i hope that all the distributions, linux, bsd, everything will come with these default firewall settings in the future, to ensure security, e.g.: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=UNLPSECr --- On Sun, 12/26/10, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 10:28 PM > On 12/26/2010 02:11 PM, Genes > MailLists wrote: > > I need to read about ipv6 - but can I > keep (1) with ipv6 ? i.e. > > machines inside access to internet similar to what > they have now via > > firewall/nat ... but no way for those ipv6 addresses > to be seen SYN'd > > from outside. > > AIUI, there are IPv6 address ranges designated for > that. And, even > better, there's no reason that your LAN can't still be on > IPv4 on a > non-routable range while you're router's on IPv6 to the > rest of the world. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines