Apple Under Fire For Backing Off IPv6 Support

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday April 15, 2012 @03:07AM from the no-ipv6-for-you dept.

alphadogg writes "Apple Computer came under fire for back-pedaling on its support for IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol, at a gathering of experts held in Denver this week. Presenters at the North American IPv6 Summit expressed annoyance that the latest version of Apple's AirPort Utility, Version 6.0, is no longer compatible with IPv6. The previous Version, 5.6, offered IPv6 service by default. While home networking vendors like Cisco and D-Link are adding IPv6 across their product lines, Apple appears to be the only vendor that is removing this feature."

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Re:Because 32bits of addressing... by shutdown+-p+now · 2012-04-15 17:26 · Score: 1, Offtopic

You don't need to hand them the firewalls; they don't even need to know that one exists. Just put it in the IPv6 router, and configure it such that effect on security is same as NAT (i.e. no random incoming connections), out of the box.