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Parent poster is making the (good and underrated) point that NAT makes this logic failsafe: Turn an IPv6 firewall off and you’ve got all incoming connections al
by kiririn 2y ago
Parent poster is making the (good and underrated) point that NAT makes this logic failsafe: Turn an IPv6 firewall off and you’ve got all incoming connections allowed. Turn IPv4 NAT off and you’ve got no connectivity at all
- vel0city 2y agoSo gate it behind a "here be dragons" option or hide it in the GUI entirely for the basic home version.
- pferde 2y agoOr make the "turned off" state block all traffic, just like closing a water valve, or a road gate. I never understood why network firewalls did not default to this.
- kiririn 2y agoTurning off the firewall could just as easily be a unnoticed configuration error that causes it to die on startup