No it really doesn't. Thank you for leaving the key word when you quoted me (configured). The difference is the _default_ behavior of the two. NAT by _default_ drops packets it doesn't have a mapped PAT translation for. Home firewalls do not _default_ to dropping all packets they don't have a rule to explicitly allow. The behaviors when configured by someone knowledgeable behave the in a similar fashion (allowing packets that are configured to pass and dropping all others) but end users don't do that as a rule. On 1/12/2011 3:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Scott Helms<khelms@ispalliance.net> said:
Few home users have a stateful firewall configured Yes, they do. NAT requires a stateful firewall. Why is that so hard to understand?
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