Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

Miquel van Smoorenburg mikevs at xs4all.net
Wed Jan 12 20:37:47 UTC 2011


In article <xs4all.4D2E0B77.9060504 at ispalliance.net>,
Scott Helms  <khelms at ispalliance.net> wrote:
>Few home users have a stateful firewall configured and AFAIK none of the 
>consumer models come with a good default set of rules much less a drop 
>all unknown.

The v6 capable CPEs for home users I've seen so far all include
stateful firewalling with inbound default deny.

(including the one I'm using right now)

Is your experience with such CPEs any different ?

Mike.




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