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Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Wed Jan 12 15:35:28 2011

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:31:16 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net> said:
> Few home users have a stateful firewall configured

Yes, they do.  NAT requires a stateful firewall.  Why is that so hard to
understand?
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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