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Re: NATs are NOT Firewalls

2003-06-18 22:21:39
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 06:28 PM, Tomson Eric ((Yahoo.fr)) wrote:

Now, the fact that masking the internal addresses to the external
world - so that internal hosts can initiate traffic to the outside, but no
external host can initiate traffic to the inside - brings some basic
security, is an interesting corollary, but not the primary objective of a
NAT.

Is this just security through obscurity, or something better?

simon


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