Does IPv6 tunneling present any problem for firewall in an IPv4 network? Explain your reasoning for this answer
Yes, it does as explained below.
Fate-sharing: Dual-stack hosts open two attack channels for the miscreant: over IPv4 and over IPv6. As several operating systems have IPv6 enabled by default (for example, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Mac OS/X and so on), this means that each and every host running those operating systems must be protected against IPv4 and IPv6 attacks. This is also called fate-sharing: a dual-stack host is as secure as its weakest protocol stack is secure... And quite often, the IPv6 stack has either no protection at all (i.e. no personal IPv6 firewall) or a non-configured protection (i.e. the personal firewall is for both IPv4 and IPv6 but the IPv6 side is not configured).
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