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This is a follow up to a snippet from another answeranother answer.

There, user Ninefingers writes:

(...) only allow outbound connections, ever. Do this in spite of NAT as IPv6 will make those NAT defences disappear.

Can someone please explain what this means? Or, rather, how this affects the average user that has his Windows 7 PC(s) running behind his local router that's doing NAT and connecting to the DSL modem.

This is a follow up to a snippet from another answer.

There, user Ninefingers writes:

(...) only allow outbound connections, ever. Do this in spite of NAT as IPv6 will make those NAT defences disappear.

Can someone please explain what this means? Or, rather, how this affects the average user that has his Windows 7 PC(s) running behind his local router that's doing NAT and connecting to the DSL modem.

This is a follow up to a snippet from another answer.

There, user Ninefingers writes:

(...) only allow outbound connections, ever. Do this in spite of NAT as IPv6 will make those NAT defences disappear.

Can someone please explain what this means? Or, rather, how this affects the average user that has his Windows 7 PC(s) running behind his local router that's doing NAT and connecting to the DSL modem.

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Is IPv6 with NAT less secure than IPv4?

This is a follow up to a snippet from another answer.

There, user Ninefingers writes:

(...) only allow outbound connections, ever. Do this in spite of NAT as IPv6 will make those NAT defences disappear.

Can someone please explain what this means? Or, rather, how this affects the average user that has his Windows 7 PC(s) running behind his local router that's doing NAT and connecting to the DSL modem.