[134840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fernando Gont)
Wed Jan 12 11:54:31 2011
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:54:18 -0300
From: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC132F0@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/01/2011 01:17 p.m., George Bonser wrote:
> But your security person needs to shift their thinking because the
> purpose of NAT and private addressing is to conserve IP address, not to
> provide security. With IPv6, the concept of NAT goes away.
You have heard about NAT66, right?
Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
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