DDOS attacks and Large ISPs doing NAT?

Bradley Dunn bradley at dunn.org
Thu May 2 19:40:57 UTC 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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