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Yes, the only key difference is that NAT is gone.

Also a nitpick: switching is irrelevant here, that’s L2. L2 doesn’t even know what’s an IP address :)

There was some dude on YouTube that resurrected the first Ethernet bridge (which was built for thicknet) - I recall even that worked with IPv6.