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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