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Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tarig Ahmed)
Wed Jan 12 08:40:00 2011

From: Tarig Ahmed <tariq198487@hotmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:41:00 +0300
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

We have wide range of Public IP addresses, I tried to assign public ip  
directly to a server behined firewall( in DMZ), but I have been  
resisted.
Security guy told me is not correct to assign public ip to a server,  
it should have private ip for security reasons.

Is it true that NAT can provide more security?

Thanks,

Tarig Yassin Ahmed



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