Agree, and indeed one of the issues for the transition is to make sure that border firewalls and other security stuff get updated. Regards, Jordi
De: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> Responder a: <owner-nanog@merit.edu> Fecha: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:12:49 +0800 Para: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es> CC: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org> Asunto: Re: Microsoft and Teredo
On Thu, May 31, 2007, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
In windows, you have IPv6 firewall, so even if Teredo traverses the "IPv4 security", there is still something there.
A good description of all this is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/teredo.mspx
I've read that; but again enterprise and ISPs may impose restrictions on the types of traffic to/from end users, and this circumvents that. Host-based firewalls are not the be all or end all of network security.
Adrian
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