On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:05 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Golly - NAT IS NOT A SECURITY MEASURE! How many times does that have
to be said to sink in? It doesn't matter, it still does pretty well as such. It doesn't do anything that a properly configured firewall can't do. Start by blocking everything and then allow only what you want. Sure, but with NAT in his xDSL router, Joe Bloggs doesn't have to do anything at all.
And what does he have to do with IPv6? Nothing at all! AND all his apps [and games!] just work. The default firewall on every device I've seen is block-all-incoming-connections. So nothing changes as far as the [mythical] joe-user is concerned. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org