RE: understanding IPv6

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

On Sunday, 7 June, 2020 21:49, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wropte:

> ...
> Keepalive requirements are a property of whether or not you employ stateful firewalls.
> ...

Keepalive's are not designed for stateful firewalls, they are designed to permit the endpoints to know whether the 
communication channel is still intact.

They may also be useful to "keepalive" connection table entries in stateful firewalls and NAT/NATP devices, however 
this is merely a side effect and not their purpose.

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