[97048] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Microsoft and Teredo

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu May 31 09:12:15 2007

Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:12:49 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <C2849307.19C5A9%jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, May 31, 2007, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> 
> In windows, you have IPv6 firewall, so even if Teredo traverses the "IPv4
> security", there is still something there.
> 
> A good description of all this is available at:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/teredo.mspx

I've read that; but again enterprise and ISPs may impose restrictions
on the types of traffic to/from end users, and this circumvents that.
Host-based firewalls are not the be all or end all of network security.



Adrian


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post