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Re[2]: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Mon Sep 10 13:46:49 2001

Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:47:43 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
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On 10 Sep 2001 13:29:58 -0400 Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com> wrote:

> I've actually seen the question of how NAT breaks the Internet more
> than a good stateful firewall come up more than once, and haven't
> really seen a satisfactory answer.  Where does a stateful firewall
> configured to only allow outgoing connections work that NAT doesn't?

in the case of IPSec, the IP addresses need to be preserved end-to-end
as part of the whole security scheme.

richard
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Richard Welty                                    Averill Park Networking
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