Comment on New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling

• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To expand on this, we have functionally ran out of IPv4 addresses. Meaning IPv6 addresses are required.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not only that, but ipv6 makes networking easier and less complicated. No longer, needing port forwarding or NAT, amongst other improvements

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    • Blackmist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s that necessarily a good thing?

      I remember suddenly needing a firewall on my PC back in the days of the Blaster worm.

      Do we really want all those crappy IoT devices open on all ports to the general internet?

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        NAT is not security. We aren’t talking about replacing friewalls.

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d be fucked if I had to deal with IPv6 at home. Give me NAT, port forwarding and a dynamic public address that changes.

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Slaac does everything for you. You get dynamic public addresses that change (you can disable if you please). Nothing to deal with, just open a firewall port if you want to receive traffic

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only for the internet, not private space

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No shit.

  But a private Lan will never need it

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  • Nighed@sffa.community ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ideally, using just IP6 would be simpler, as every device gets a global address. Then you don’t need to mess with NAT, port forwarding and all that bullshit.

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