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Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Jan 12 12:11:50 2011

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:10:40 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 3/21/07 2:41 AM, Tarig Ahmed wrote:
> 
> Is it true that NAT can provide more security?
> 

No.

However, some things like PCI compliance require NAT, likely because of
the "NAT = super hacker firewall" concept.

~Seth


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