New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

Sun Dec 19 18:50:59 UTC 2004

On 19-dec-04, at 16:54, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:

>>> Some manufactures, such as Apple AirPort Extreme, also make dialup
>>> gateways with dialup modem PPP and firewall capabilities.

>> Actually the Airport Extreme doesn't do firewalling.

> It does PNAT and port forwarding to an inside IP address with
> remapping.  This matches with the vernacular use of the term
> "firewall".

If you say so...

> I've not tried to get it to route a subnet; I'm not even
> sure if it's possible.

Not as far as I can tell. But being a base station, it can act as a 
switch. In this mode, it's completely transparent (unless you count 
rate limiting multicasts...). And even with NAT there is no way to 
filter outgoing traffic.