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Hello Victor,

On Tuesday April 11 2023 09:47, you wrote to me:

 MV>> In IPv6 avery device has a Unique Global Address, so one
 MV>> can simply create pinholes in advance as needed for the address
 MV>> in question.

 VS> Only when you know the IPv6 address and port beforehand.

When runing servers you normally do...

 VS> Usually an IPv6 address on the home LAN is dynamic (SLAAC),

No. SLAAC addresses are not dynamic. They are derived from the MAC address.

 VS> and the port in peer-to-peer applications, VoIP applications etc is
 VS> often dynamic too.

VOIP normally uses standard ports.

 VS> The situation is different of course when you are hosting an IPv6
 VS> web-server or something like that. It would have a fixed IPv6 address
 VS> and port anyway, so there is no need for punch-holing the firewall.

Indeed.


Cheers, Michiel

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