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I did it before because I assumed it was causing issues and not configuring things on my network properly.

I was wrong and the issues were elsewhere, but it remained disabled on the router for a long time.

I’m generally a person who resists change and I can’t tangibly see the benefits of ipv6; until I realised that “port-forwarding” is an exclusively NAT problem and it’s much easier with ipv6 to just natively open a port on the firewall if I want.



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