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Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
From: "Jerry Eyers" <jeyers () sloancc net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:14:51 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
"Get a firewall" is not a valid response when you have lusers to drop the latest netgear whatever onto their PC and dial to some provider somewhere. Your firewall is useless to protect that segment. In many cases NAT is the ONLY protection you end up with in this scenario, a scenario that is far to common in the corporate world. Jerry -------Original Message------- From: Theo de Whaat Date: 11/09/04 15:28:44 To: jeyers () sloancc net Subject: Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Get a firewall. You shouldn't rely on NAT to provide this functionality. How long has IPv6 been on the horizon, promising to make NAT unnecessary?
I want my inside addresses to be non accessible from the 'real world', ever.
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