And once you've set the firewall you can tell us "it used to work beautifully"!
On 04/07/2015, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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