Comment Re:I'm using it (Score 1) 231
If your home network has a
If you use privacy addresses, this means a script kiddie who is able to scan one million hosts per second is going to take around 600,000 years to get through the whole subnet.
If you use link identity addresses, that might reduce to 6,000 years or so.
I run v6 with a trivial firewall: allow established, allow inbound port 22, 80, >= 1024, allow ICMPv6, deny all other packets.
(If you do set up a v6 firewall, make sure you allow ICMPv6; there's no packet fragmentation in v6 so if you discard packet too big messages you'll break your v6 and be part of the 0.01% that gives big vendors like Google the willies about losing).