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The question above for the most part, been reading up on it. Also want to it for learning purposes.

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[–] paperbenni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, ipv6 doesn't require port forwarding to expose something to the internet?

[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Port forwarding is exclusively a NAT phenomenon.

In IPv6 every device should in theory have a public address - just like how every computer had a public IPv4 address back in the 1980s ~ 1990s.

However, most sensible routers will have a firewall setup by default that blocks all incoming connections for security reasons. You still need to add firewall rules.

[–] fedev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is correct. My router however doesn't have that level of firewall. It's either all allowed or nothing is.