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

[S Woodside]

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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