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Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Nov 9 15:28:32 2004

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:27:57 -0800
To: "Jerry Eyers" <jeyers@sloancc.net>
Cc: <bsdusr@gmail.com>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> "Get a firewall" is not a valid response when you have lusers
> to drop the latest netgear whatever onto their PC and dial
> to some provider somewhere.  Your firewall is useless to 
> protect that segment.  In many cases NAT is the ONLY
> protection you end up with in this scenario, a scenario that
> is far to common in the corporate world.

and do explain how a user coming in with their laptop and
dialing a provider is gonna be affected by your nat

randy


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