UPnP/IPv6 support in home routers?

MICHAEL BRINSKELLE yiddie98 at comcast.net
Wed Dec 13 21:13:31 CET 2017


stop with these emails. If they continue you will be reported
> On December 12, 2017 at 10:24 AM Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 03:45:17PM +0100, Jan Pedro Tumusok wrote:
> > What about alle the people that are not able to setup their own filters and
> > other security mechanisms? Most people got this computer stuff for usage
> > and not to thinker with or spend ours figuring out the best type of
> > configuration.
> > How do we give them a bit more security than wide open devices?
> 
> Besides the IoT crap, most devices nowadays have not been "wide open"
> in a long time.
> 
> So either you assume the devices are vulnerable to network attacks - and
> in that case, they should not share a network with IoT and other crap.
> 
> Or you assume the devices are indeed hardened properly (otherwise, I 
> would not connect a laptop to a public wifi either...) - in which case a 
> firewall mostly gets in the way of getting work done.
> 
> Now, the IoT crap should just be moved to the garbage bin, and *that*
> would help.
> 
> Gert Doering
>         -- NetMaster
> -- 
> have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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