Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-26 Thread Leonid Yegoshin
>From: Greg Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> But anybody clear understand that if your internal hosts do not have >> a public address then all attacks may be only static - wait until >> internal host open TCP to somewhere. > >This is a naive understanding. Source-routing would let me get >packets

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-26 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: "Eliot Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's also completely naive that source routing is your only threat. One > can break into a NAT. One can forge packets and address them > appropriately. Firewalls prevent this, not NATs. That statement is just as naive, unless you qualify the word "fi

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-26 Thread Eliot Lear
It's also completely naive that source routing is your only threat. One can break into a NAT. One can forge packets and address them appropriately. Firewalls prevent this, not NATs.

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-26 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: Greg Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But anybody clear understand that if your internal hosts do not have > > a public address then all attacks may be only static - wait until > > internal host open TCP to somewhere. > > This is a naive understanding. Source-routing would let me get > pac

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-26 Thread Greg Hudson
> But anybody clear understand that if your internal hosts do not have > a public address then all attacks may be only static - wait until > internal host open TCP to somewhere. This is a naive understanding. Source-routing would let me get packets through to an internal address unless your NAT

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-26 Thread Leonid Yegoshin
>From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >In message <001501bfaf43$127e4d00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eliot Lear" writes: >>It is a complete fallacy that NAT provides any sort of security. It does >>no such thing. Security is provide by a firewall, and (more importantly) >>by strong security

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-26 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <001501bfaf43$127e4d00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eliot Lear" writes: >It is a complete fallacy that NAT provides any sort of security. It does >no such thing. Security is provide by a firewall, and (more importantly) >by strong security policies that are policed and enforced. Eliot is abs

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-25 Thread Eliot Lear
groups: cisco.external.ietf Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:11 PM Subject: Re: NAT->IPv6 > >From: John Stracke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >"J. Noel Chiappa" wrote: > > > >> So, you're the CIO for Foondoggle Corp, and you're trying to figu

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-25 Thread Leonid Yegoshin
>From: John Stracke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >"J. Noel Chiappa" wrote: > >> So, you're the CIO for Foondoggle Corp, and you're trying to figure out >> whether to spend any of your Q3 funds on IPv6 conversion. Let's see, benefits >> are not very many (autoconfig may be the best one), and the cost is >

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-25 Thread Leonid Yegoshin
>From: "Charles E. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >If we get to a model where large new domains use IPv6 addressing >with NAT to global IPv4 address space, that would be quite useful. >Before too long, services will appear on the IPv6 network that >can't get the IPv4 global addresses they need.

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-25 Thread John Stracke
"J. Noel Chiappa" wrote: > So, you're the CIO for Foondoggle Corp, and you're trying to figure out > whether to spend any of your Q3 funds on IPv6 conversion. Let's see, benefits > are not very many (autoconfig may be the best one), and the cost is > substantial. Sure. Then you buy out Moondogg

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-25 Thread Charles E. Perkins
Hello Matt, I probably shouldn't tread into these waters, but... >> Now, if you have a site which has more hosts than it can get external IPv4 >> addresses for, then as long as there are considerable numbers of IPv4 hosts a >> site needs to interoperate with, *deploying IPv6 internally to the s

Re: NAT->IPv6

2000-04-25 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
> From: Matt Holdrege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> The basic key *architectural* problem with NAT ... is that when you >> have a small number of external addresses being shared by a larger >> number of hosts behind some sort of "address-sharing" device, there's >> no permanent assoc

NAT->IPv6

2000-04-25 Thread Matt Holdrege
At 12:55 PM 4/25/00 -0400, J. Noel Chiappa wrote: >The basic key *architectural* problem with NAT (as opposed to all the >mechanical problems like encrypted checksums, etc, some of which can be >solved with variant mechanisms like RSIP), as made clear by Keith's comments, >is that when you have a