[mythtv-users] MythTV and IPV6

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 03:33:52 UTC 2015


On 09/23/2015 12:50 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> .....
>> You don't need a global address.
>
> It depends.  If you want access to "the entire Internet" you need
> global addresses at some point (either direct, or (if you insist,
> but in my opinion usually a poor idea) NAT'ed).  While there are
> currently few major sites that are IPv6 only, the future is clear.

Right, however:

In this case, the OP was running into information that said he *had* to
use tunneling and HE. Also, he said that "...every machine becomes
exposed to the Internet [with IPv6]...". I was trying to assure him
that neither of the above are necessarily true.

-- 
Bill


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