top | item 14855093

(no title)

toast42 | 8 years ago

The Google Fiber router doesn't support IPv6 port forwarding. That was a frustrating afternoon and a bit of a surprise to learn.

discuss

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC|8 years ago

What would you possibly want to use IPv6 port forwarding for?

ianburrell|8 years ago

IPv6 port forwarding likely just means allowing incoming connections in IPv6 firewall. Exposing internal machines with IPv4 uses NAT and is called "port forwarding". IPv6 doesn't need NAT but people still call it "port forwarding".

noselasd|8 years ago

does it do ipv6 nat - that is a very rare scenario ? otherwise I don't see how it can do portforwarding.

bleke|8 years ago

Yes ipv6 have nat and do port forwarding at least on linux, usefull scenario is when developing embedded devices and don't want make easily guess your isp how many devices have.