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Re: Security gain from NAT (was: Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff)

  • From: Valdis . Kletnieks
  • Date: Mon Jun 04 16:31:03 2007 
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:32:39 PDT, Jim Shankland said:
> *No* security gain?  No protection against port scans from Bucharest?
> No protection for a machine that is used in practice only on the
> local, office LAN?  Or to access a single, corporate Web site?

Nope. Zip. Zero. Ziltch.  Nothing over and above what a good properly
configured stateful *non*-NAT firewall should be doing for you already.

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