[47370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDOS attacks and Large ISPs doing NAT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Thu May 2 15:42:02 2002
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From: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley@dunn.org>
To: "Mansey, Jon" <Jon_Mansey@verestar.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:40:57 -0400
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> A NAT'd cell phone
> wont, cant ever, respond to an unsolicited connection request.
A NAT is not a firewall.
A firewall is not a NAT.
Some vendors bundle firewall functionality with NAT functionality, just as
some vendors bundle SNA with IP.
Please stop perpetuating the myth that a NAT is a security device.
Bradley
