Sep 24 00:43 2016, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Tony Langdon:
TL>> Some routers say you do (Fritzboxes use this misleading language), TL>> but yes in reality, there is no port forwarding, just opening up ports TL>> in the packet filter.
MvdV> Not just the Fritz. My present modem/router, a Cisco EPC3928 does MvdV> it too. It even uses the same "form" to specify an IPv4 port MvdV> forwarding as IPv6 port opening. For each line one can choose MvdV> between IPv4 and IPv6. There are fields for external port range, MvdV> internal IP address, internal port range and protocol (TCP, UDP, MvdV> Both)
I can understand, that vendors are trying to keep things simple for average Joe, but this make-IPv6-fit-into-IPv4-NAT-configuration approach makes it more complicated actually.
