mapping public to private IPv6 networks when firewalling

[Cameron Byrne]

On Nov 23, 2011 1:23 PM, "Eugen Leitl" <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
>
> The SOP for firewalling in IPv4 is to use
> private (RFC 1918) networks and map external public
> networks 1:1 to them. The idea is that defaults to
> unreachable systems in case of firewall failure.
>
> What's the address space to use in IPv6 for such
> purposes? Is fc00::/7 (RFC 4193) unroutable on
> the public Internet in the same way as RFC 1918
> addresses?
>

Answering your specific question, yes.

Cb
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