[94619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Jan 30 02:02:05 2007
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:59:17 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
Cc: michael.dillon@bt.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070130005724.GA8547@core.center.osis.gov>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:57:24 -0500
Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:48:04PM -0000, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
> ...
> > IPv6 makes NAT obsolete because IPv6 firewalls can provide all
> > the useful features of IPv4 NAT without any of the downsides.
> ...
>
> IPv6 firewalls? Where? Good ones?
>
Checkpoint claims to have supported IPv6 since 2002:
http://www.checkpoint.com/press/2002/ipv6_081402.html
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
