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We don't talk about IPv5 (lemmy.world)
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[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Of course you can do IPv6 magic that hides IPv6 from the end device, but nobody understands how that magic works.

it’s not magic… it’s a firewall, and it works pretty much exactly the same as a NAT: a whitelist of IP and port combinations