On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:14:51AM -0500, Jerry Eyers wrote:
"Get a firewall" is not a valid response when you have lusers to drop the latest netgear whatever onto their PC and dial to some provider somewhere. Your firewall is useless to protect that segment. In many cases NAT is the ONLY protection you end up with in this scenario, a scenario that is far to common in the corporate world.
Jerry
Then get a stateful firewall. NAT == stateful fw + header map/mod done/done. -J -- James Jun TowardEX Technologies, Inc. Technical Lead IPv4 and Native IPv6 Colocation, Bandwidth, james@towardex.com and Web Hosting Services in the Metro Boston area cell: 1(978)-394-2867 web: http://www.towardex.com , noc: www.twdx.net