[Cialug] Slightly OT - IPv6 sillyness

Rob Cook rdjcook at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 14:46:05 CDT 2014


I could be wrong but I think that this covers what you want to do:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4193.txt



On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:31 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> I have been trying to grok IPv6 and how it fits into our infrascture, ..
> and one thing blows my mind - if I understand correctly, there is NO WAY
> TO SETUP A PRIVATE SUBNET? In my mind the first step of any security is to
> put all the user machines on a 10-net behind a firewall doing NAT, which
> is impossible with IPv6, as every v6 address is publicly accessible!
>
> We had a big discussion about this last month, and the IPv6 chap was
> dumbfounded that I even wanted to DO a private network.
>
> Is this really true? How is one *supposed* to create a sane user subnet
> with IPv6?
>
>         Lee
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