• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Port forwarding is a function of NAT. It’s only needed because there aren’t enough ipv4 addresses for every device, so in most networks a lot of devices share a single ip and specific ports are forwarded to specific internal hosts

    IPv6 has a large enough address space that this isn’t needed. You can still do it if you want. But mostly you just need a firewall without any NAT.

    There’s more to it than this but you should get the idea.

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        2 hours ago

        You responded to a question with an incorrect answer. I was correcting that.

        VPNs shouldn’t need to forward any ports when using ipv6. They can provide an entire ipv6 subnet to you.