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Re: DDOS attacks and Large ISPs doing NAT?
- From: Bradley Dunn
- Date: Thu May 02 15:43:51 2002
> A NAT'd cell phone
> wont, cant ever, respond to an unsolicited connection request.
A NAT is not a firewall.
A firewall is not a NAT.
Some vendors bundle firewall functionality with NAT functionality, just as
some vendors bundle SNA with IP.
Please stop perpetuating the myth that a NAT is a security device.
Bradley
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