Re: IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

[John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/06/10 4:27 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Bob McConnell<rmcconne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> No, the downside is that each address used will be exposed to the world.
>> I consider that a serious security flaw. ...
> What you are talking about is a FIREWALL, which is NOT THE SAME THING
> as a NAT router.  ...


Bob, much like my employer's 'E Security' people, seems to think that 
the host addresses themselves are privileged proprietary secrets, and 
exposing them increases the probability of being hacked.


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