Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly adopts IPv6)

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@yahoo.com>]

Exactly. A NAPT  (not a NA(!P)T ......) is in fact a perfectly good 
firewall* for the home user. So all this argumentation that a "NAPT is 
not a firewall" is bunk.

* where firewall = a device that protect my internal net from external 
threats

simon

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:46  AM, Daniel Senie wrote:

> A $50 NAPT box (using terminology from the NAT WG's terminology RFC) 
> provides sufficient firewalling and purposeful interruption of 
> applications for the typical DSL or cable modem user. It runs 
> somewhere OTHER than on the user's computer, so when a virus gets in 
> and tries to disable the user's firewall software, less damage is > done.

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