Vista, that’s what ruined it for me. I had XP Pro, and I loved that it had all the features (IIS, FTP Server, etc.). But when Vista came out, it had so many different versions, each one a gatekeeper for different features. That was just too much. XP was the last one I used for my personal use. I jumped into Linux, head first, and I’ve never looked back.

Windows XP. The moment I realized the mess Windows Vista was going to be, I knew I had to switch over.

We will continue as usual. I use Arch BTW. 🤣

Please don’t.

There was a way around it however but not something everyone will be able to do with their home router. I had to ssh to the router using ISP admin credentials leaked on the internet, then create a file in init.d that loads a custom iptables file with the firewall rules I needed for IPv6. NAT for IPv6 however was not supported by the kennel used for my router.

This is correct. My router however doesn’t have that level of firewall. It’s either all allowed or nothing is.

The router does have a firewall but it blocks everything inbound by default. Some routers (at least mine) do not offer the granularity to filter traffic for certain devices (no NAT either). It’s either allow all in or nothing.

When you enable IPv6 and switch off the firewall (since you can’t host anything otherwise), every device becomes exposed to the internet.

Then unless the devices have a firewall themselves, all is exposed. Not just the web services, ssh and the rest as well.

Because devices in your LAN will all be accessible from the internet with IPv6, you need to firewall every device.

It becomes more of a problem for IoT devices which you can’t really control. If you can, disable ipv6 for those.

If you switch to Arch, this is waiting for you in AUR 😊.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/joliebulle

Even if it was white, is kind of a bad contrast for reading.

…and could lead to something bad if left open.

IPv6 is a viable option. Depending on how you set things up, you’d have to firewall the devices pretty good as in IPv6, devices are exposed to the internet. All open ports would be accessible.

People park their cars in the bike lanes here 🤬

I expected as much, Minecraft cows did it.