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Re: Future of the IPv6 CPE survey on RIPE Labs - Your Input Needed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Jan 27 18:38:36 2011

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:38:27 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 1/27/11 10:40 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: 
> --- frnkblk@iname.com wrote:
> From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
> 
> Have you looked at D-Link's DIR-825?  It has most of the things you're
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> Ewww, yuck!  "...this router utilizes dual active firewalls (SPI and NAT) to prevent potential attacks from across the Internet."
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> ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir825/Manual/dir825_manual_110.zip


--- joelja@bogus.com wrote:
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>

unlike a simpler device you can actually turn that off.
in fact it has more knobs than you've likely seen in a consumer cpe...
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I just meant they were calling NAT an "active firewall" in the manual.  I need a bath.  I feel dirty now...  >:-)

scott


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