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the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?



On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:22:47 -0700
Bill Stewart <nonobvious at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> >> Here's an exercise. ?Wipe a PC. ?Put it on that cable modem with no firewall. ?Install XP on it. ?See if you can get any service packs installed before the box is infected.
> > 1. ? ? ?Yes, I can. ?I simply didn't put an IPv4 address on it. ;-)
> > 2. ? ? ?I wouldn't hold XP up as the gold standard of hosts here.
> 
> One of my coworkers was IPv6ing his home network.  He had to turn off
> the Windows firewall on the machine with the IPv6 tunnel for a couple
> of minutes to install some stubborn software.  Then he had to reimage
> the box because it was pwned, and he's pretty sure that the infection
> came in over the IPv6 tunnel, not the hardware-firewalled IPv4.
> 

Your friend should learn about causation verses correlation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

Every noticed how people who have car accidents got out of bed that
morning?


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