We are running out of web addresses under IPv4 so soon we will all be moving to IPv6. It supports 2^128 web addresses which should be enough for everyone as 2^128= 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
Apparently one of the advantages of that is that we no longer need NAT on our routers since we don't need private networks since every device can be on the internet.
Part of me says great, no more need to have to do any port forwarding to get access to stuff on my LAN.
Another part of me says "So that means a hacker has easier access to all of my network devices and may be able to screw around with the devices on my home network?"
I probably got a few things wrong above, but what are the security implications of this? Will our ISP give us our own public subnet (is that even the right term) so that we each get something like 256 IP addresses? Will it be set up so that our devices will only be able to see devices on our LAN's subnet? So what will we use to enable external acess that will take the place of port forwarding? A whitelist of external IPs?
Apparently one of the advantages of that is that we no longer need NAT on our routers since we don't need private networks since every device can be on the internet.
Part of me says great, no more need to have to do any port forwarding to get access to stuff on my LAN.
Another part of me says "So that means a hacker has easier access to all of my network devices and may be able to screw around with the devices on my home network?"
I probably got a few things wrong above, but what are the security implications of this? Will our ISP give us our own public subnet (is that even the right term) so that we each get something like 256 IP addresses? Will it be set up so that our devices will only be able to see devices on our LAN's subnet? So what will we use to enable external acess that will take the place of port forwarding? A whitelist of external IPs?