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

[S Woodside]

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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