Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
Karl Auer
kauer at biplane.com.au
Wed Apr 21 05:49:51 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 21:27 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I believe we are talking about the case where some engineer
> fat-fingers a change and Roger's claim is that a stateful inspection
> without NAT box will permit unintended traffic while a NAT box will
> not.
Possibly restating Mark's point, but if fat fingers are allowed as a
source of failure, impact is unlimited.
> IOW, All of NAT's security comes from the fact that it requires a
> state table, like stateful inspection.
>
Er - I think it's a deeper point I was making. To the extent that NAT
offers security at all, that security comes as an *unintentional side
effect* of the job it is actually designed to do. That is, the NAT
device *does not care* about its "security" function.
Regards, K.
>
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