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Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Apr 17 14:53:36 2014

In-Reply-To: <CALgc3C6v_u3Xrjf1rQ=u+62ctExOEfYWUsor-DzfamLVv+z+uA@mail.gmail.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:50:01 -0400
To: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>,
 "draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-firewall-reqs@tools.ietf.org"
 <draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-firewall-reqs@tools.ietf.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net> wrote:
> It's a bigger risk to think that NAT somehow magically protects you against
> stuff on the Internet.

You are entitled to your opinion and you are entitled to run your
network in accordance with your opinion.

To vendors who would sell me product, I would respectfully suggest
that attempts to forcefully educate me as to what I *should want*
offers neither a short nor particularly successful path to closing a
sale.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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