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Re: Google wants to be your Internet


From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:59:17 +0000


On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:57:24 -0500
Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov> wrote:


On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:48:04PM -0000, michael.dillon () bt com wrote:
...
IPv6 makes NAT obsolete because IPv6 firewalls can provide all
the useful features of IPv4 NAT without any of the downsides.
...

IPv6 firewalls?  Where?  Good ones?

Checkpoint claims to have supported IPv6 since 2002:
http://www.checkpoint.com/press/2002/ipv6_081402.html


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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