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mohaineyesterday at 10:05 PM1 replyview on HN

1. NAT and a firewall are 2 different things 2. With IPV6 you can have so many IPS that unwanted users can't guess your IP. This isn't true security but see 1 for that.


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throw0101ayesterday at 10:26 PM

> 2. With IPV6 you can have so many IPS that unwanted users can't guess your IP.

In fact you could have an IPv6 address for each user, and if one starts becoming troublesome both revoke account and stop using that address.

You could create a new IPv6 address every millisecond, and it'd take 584,868,233 years to exhaust a IPv6 subnet (/64).