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>Why would you not just use a regular firewall? No idea, but people do it. Every time this comes up on HN there are dozens of comments about how they like hid
by stackghost 6mo ago
>Why would you not just use a regular firewall?
No idea, but people do it. Every time this comes up on HN there are dozens of comments about how they like hiding their devices behind a NAT, for security
- lxgr 6mo agoJust because people regularly bring up a non sequitur doesn't mean there actually is a problem. "I have a device acting as both a NAT and a stateful firewall, why are you making me switch to IPv6 and in the process drop both the NAT and the stateful firewall?" is a non sequitur.
- stackghost 6mo agoI think we're talking about two different things, or maybe I just don't understand your reply. What I'm saying is this: There exist people in the hobbyist space who believe that when their devices only have private IPv4 addresses such as 192.168.0.0/16 that this meaningfully increases their network security, and that if their raspberry pi has a globally-routable v6 address that this weakens their network security, even though this is bogus because NAT is orthogonal to network security considerations, and that this belief contributes to IPv6 hesitancy.