[ale] V6 question

[cluon at geeklabs.com (Mike Harrison)]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 11:31 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
>> I'm truly sorry to have missed the talks on IPV6.  So how is it going
>> to replace NAT?
>
> You will receive a /64, /56, or /48 from your ISP.
>
> There is no network address translation.
>
> Remember that NAT was created in order to delay the exhaustion of IPv4
> address space.  Most home and small-office networks use NAT solely for
> the purpose of being able to have many systems access the Internet via
> the same IP address (or via a limited pool of IP addresses)---nothing
> more.


It also keeps the outside world from connecting to the inside (behind 
firewall) world, What functions that way in your above scenerio, firewall 
rules ?