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Re: Security gain from NAT: Top 5

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Thu Jun 07 07:24:26 2007


On 7-Jun-2007, at 02:48, Brandon Butterworth wrote:


  #1 NAT advantage: it protects consumers from vendor
  lock-in.

Speaking of FUD... NAT does nothing here that is not also accomplished
through the use of PI addressing. 

True, diy PI (mmm, PI) is a major reason people use it for v4 and why
they'll want something similar for v6. No internal renumbering,
ever. I can see why they choose it, even with the disadvantages

PI for everyone?

LISP! :-)