Thanks for prompting me to check, David. I have a new gateway, a Netgear D6400
which works beautifully. But I can’t find its firewall settings. I shall need
to read the manual . . .
Chris
> On 4 Jul 15, at 06:02, David Thatcher <davidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Once IPv6 becomes the mandatory standard, every connection theoretically
> gets a unique address block of their own and then all of their devices
> have a globally unique address and are thus visible to the internet.
> NAT/PAT is no longer necessary (or desirable - as it becomes an added
> complication) and without proper firewalling, many users will become
> vulnerable to outside attack.
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