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Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?


From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <mikevs () xs4all net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:37:47 +0100

In article <xs4all.4D2E0B77.9060504 () ispalliance net>,
Scott Helms  <khelms () ispalliance net> wrote:
Few home users have a stateful firewall configured and AFAIK none of the 
consumer models come with a good default set of rules much less a drop 
all unknown.

The v6 capable CPEs for home users I've seen so far all include
stateful firewalling with inbound default deny.

(including the one I'm using right now)

Is your experience with such CPEs any different ?

Mike.


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