• orangeboats@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    How is this “dropping packets” not applicable to firewalls, then? You are not just going to casually connect to my IPv6 device as we’re speaking. The default-deny firewall in my router does the heavy lifting… just like what NAT did.

    Honestly, it just sounds like you need to brush up on networking knowledge. Repeat after me: NAT is not security.

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      8 months ago

      Are you saying that everyone’s router’s firewall drops all packets from connections that originate from outside of their network?

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          8 months ago

          So, really, you were “correcting” me for you and your specific setup at the very beginning because your router’s firewall has a deny rule for all inbound connections because I must have been confusing what a NAT and what a firewall is because I must have been talking about your specific configuration on your specific devices.

          Holy. Fucking. Shit.

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            8 months ago

            Oh come on, are you seriously suggesting that default-deny is not the norm??

            Holy. Fucking. Shit. Indeed.