Default security functions on an IPv6 CPE

[Rémi Després]

Le 13 mai 2011 à 07:16, Ted Mittelstaedt a écrit :
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>>> The support calls from people unfamiliar with the technology are
>>> always cheaper than the support calls from people unfamiliar with
>>> the technology who have just been gunned.
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>> Again, that's my point. Many users of IPv6 will call hotlines when
>> some applications that work in some homes don't work in some others.
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> yes
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>> The ISP that gunned applications that take advantage of e2e address
>> transparency in IPv6 may be surprised to be called, but the
>> responsibility is its own.
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> The ISP will get called no matter what.
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> They will get called when the end user wants to open a hole in their IPv6 firewall
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> They will get called when the end user wants to make sure there are
> no holes in their IPv6 firewall and close all of them.
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> Either way you setup the CPE the ISP will get called.
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> But, the users who got an open IPv6 firewall and as a result got
> their machine rooted,

(a machine whose internal firewall has been insufficient)

> when their calls come in they will take a lot
> more time and be much more costly.

We have a different expectation here, neither of us with a proof to be right.
Fair enough.

RD


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