19 Jul
2019
19 Jul
'19
5:25 p.m.
On 7/19/19 03:01, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
Smaller vendors are lagging more (think of the APRS iGate appliances,
remoterig boxes, and other gadgets made for small audiences). But I
suspect the ease of setting up direct remote access to those gadgets,
thanks to the lack of NAT in IPv6-enabled residential networks, will
get that ball moving soon. Just open up the firewall - the thing will
have it's own public IPv6 address just like that, no need to do port
forwarding!
Amen! I'm amazed at the handsprings some people perform with IPv4 port
forwarding when they could just use IPv6 instead. When I'm away from
home, I regularly use IPv6 to reach the individual hosts beyond my home
router. (Amazing how Raspberry Pis just seem to breed...)
Because I use a general purpose Linux box as my home router, I also run
a lot of network-related software directly on it, e.g., Bit Torrent,
Squid, OpenVPN, (formerly) TOR, and of course sshd so they can all use
my one routable IPv4 address without port forwarding. That's one of the
best things about building your own router.
Phil