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Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed
Esther Schindler writes "According to this article at IT Expert Voice, Windows 7 and IPv6: Useful at Last?, we've had so many predictions that this will be 'the year of IPv6' that most of us have stopped listening. But the network protocol may have new life breathed into it because IPv6 is a requirement for DirectAccess. DirectAccess, a feature in Windows 7, makes remote access a lot easier — and it doesn't require a VPN. (Lisa Vaas interviews security experts and network admins to find out what they think of that idea.) The two articles examine the advantages and disadvantages of DirectAccess, with particular attention to the possibility that Microsoft's sponsorship may give IPv6 the deployment push it has lacked."
Uhh... 3 letters for you. D.N.S.
I have to say that this is what struck my eye :
In addition, DirectAccess can be integrated with Network Access Protection (NAP). NAP, which was introduced in its current version in Windows Server 2008, automatically checks that a remote PC has up-to-date software and the proper policy-set security settings.
OK, it checks for software status, which I guess is cool, but what makes me suspect that there is a "Refuse to operate unless the licenses appear OK" aspect to this ?
By the way, this sets up an IPSEC VPN, so I am not sure why the OP says it doesn't require a VPN.
Mod parent up. If you can map between the "inside" and the "outside" of your organization you can drop packets coming from the outside just as readily.
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Dynamic DNS, then. I use that for remoting into my computer and router from other places.
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The funny thing is, however, that NAT isn't entirely obsoleted by ipv6... because it is almost inevitable that ipv6 space will be almost as poorly managed as ipv4 space was in the beginning, we will probably still run out of ipv6 space sooner than we otherwise would. Of course, due to the sheer size of ipv6 space, I suspect that's not likely to happen in most of our lifetimes.
In most of our lifetimes? Per Wikipedia:
The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2^128 (about 3.4×10^38) addresses—or approximately 5×10^28 (roughly 2^95) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×10^9) people alive in 2006. In a different perspective, this is 2^52 (about 4.5×10^15) addresses for every observable star in the known universe.
It will take way more than poor management to use up all those numbers in any timescale with meaning to a human life.
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