[arin-discuss] Trying to Understand IPV6

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 9/13/10 6:00 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:48:59PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>> proper ports in the firewall.  Funny how easy that gets when there is
>> no STUN or uPNP in the fray.  Might even be something that you click
> 
> I don't think (but I'm not sure) that uPnP requires NAT.  That is,
> I think a stateful firewall could implement uPnP and use it simply
> to unblock ports on request.

look up on wikipedia, IGD and SSDP

http://upnp.org/sdcps-and-certification/standards/device-architecture-documents/

their approach for v6 is already documented.

> I think for most consumers that's a good model.  Your PS3 or other
> appliance like device can request the couple of ports it needs, and
> if you want to know you can log into your gateway and see waht a
> device requests, and/or deny a particular device such access.
> 
> 
> 
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