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Re: Security gain from NAT (was: Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff)


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:54:01 -0400

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:32:39 PDT, Jim Shankland said:
*No* security gain?  No protection against port scans from Bucharest?
No protection for a machine that is used in practice only on the
local, office LAN?  Or to access a single, corporate Web site?

Nope. Zip. Zero. Ziltch.  Nothing over and above what a good properly
configured stateful *non*-NAT firewall should be doing for you already.


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