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Ok, that other thread got kind of out of control. So let's try this question again, in a different way: Given: When using IPv6, some people will use NAT, others won't. Each person can make their own decision. If you want to dispute that, please start a new thread instead of this one. I've had that discussion here before, and I'm done with it. Whether you NAT or NOT, most will agree it's a bad idea to expose your toaster, watch, TV, laptop and everything to the unsolicited inbound traffic from the wild wild web. Therefore, a stateful firewall packet filter at the perimeter is necessary to block inbound unsolicited traffic. Therefore, p2p in general is broken. Unless.... Unless there is a protocol or solution of some sort, that allows internal devices to reconfigure the perimeter firewall to allow the inbound traffic. Such tasks are currently done via NAT-PMP and IGD, but those unfortunately seem to be IPv4 only. So... What's the solution for IPv6?
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