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

[S Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com>]

Keith, I don't get this argument. A NAPT is a firewall by your own 
definition "I believe the primary purpose of firewalls should be to 
protect the network, not the hosts, from abusive or unauthorized 
usage." It's implementing a very simple policy, protect me from the 
outside world.

simon

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 06:07  AM, Keith Moore wrote:

> and kills that user's ability to run valuable applications.  in fact, 
> the NAT
> is not a firewall at all.  it isn't implementing any policy specified 
> by the
> user.  what it's doing is imposing some arbitrary restrictions on the 
> user's
> network that may or may not serve the user's interests at all.  it's 
> snake
> oil.

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