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Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)


From: Paul Timmins <paul () timmins net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:38:53 -0500


On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:22, Scott McGrath wrote:
That was _exactly_ the point I was attempting to make.  If you recall
there was a case recently where a subcontractor at a power generation
facility linked their system to an isolated network which gave
unintentional global access to the isolated network.  a NAT at the
subcontrator's interface would have prevented this.

So would have a stateful firewall set to keep state, default deny
inbound.
This is how customer grade firewall products should work with NAT
disabled, although they probably don't.
-Paul

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Paul Timmins <paul () timmins net>


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