Re: Security gain from NAT (was: Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff)

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:32:39 PDT, Jim Shankland said:

*No* security gain? No protection against port scans from Bucharest? No protection for a machine that is used in practice only on the local, office LAN? Or to access a single, corporate Web site?

Nope. Zip. Zero. Ziltch. Nothing over and above what a good properly configured stateful *non*-NAT firewall should be doing for you already.