v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Tue Feb 10 02:24:13 UTC 2009


John Peach wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:16:49 -0500
> "TJ" <trejrco at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> 	The SOX auditor ought to know better.  Any auditor that
>>> 	requires NAT is incompenent.
>> Sadly, there are many audit REQUIREMENTS explicitly naming NAT and
>> RFC1918 addressing ... 
> 
> SOX auditors are incompetent. I've been asked about anti-virus software
> on UNIX servers and then asked to prove that they run UNIX.........


Not just SOX. I vaguely remember something in PCI about NAT. It wouldn't
surprise me if every auditing thing involving computers said something
about requiring NAT. See my earlier comment about NAT=firewall.

~Seth




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