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Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.


From: Mark Newton <newton () internode com au>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:39:36 +1030


On 11/12/2009, at 1:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

You don't need UPnP if you'r not doing NAT.

You kinda do if you're using a stateful firewall with a "deny
everything that shouldn't be accepted" policy.  UPnP (or something
like it) would have to tell the firewall what should be accepted.


   - mark

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