From owner-freebsd-net Sat May 30 00:03:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05345 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 00:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05333 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 00:03:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pete@silver.sms.fi) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.8/8.7.3) id KAA13226; Sat, 30 May 1998 10:03:02 +0300 (EEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 10:03:02 +0300 (EEST) From: Petri Helenius To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipv6 network addresses In-Reply-To: References: <11691.896448831@coconut.itojun.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13679.44784.627668.295652@silver.sms.fi> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew N. Dodd writes: > On Fri, 29 May 1998, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote: > > I believe people would like to get rid of NAT when v6 is deployed, > > so there will be no private address, I believe... > > For the most part your belief would be correct however in a small number > of cases I find NAT to be highly useful. > > I have a number of machines running at home which are not secured and > should not be reachable via global addresses. In addition, I keep my > Win95/NT/Netware boxes behind the NAT on general principle. Repeat after me: NAT is not reason for not having security. Additionally it breaks your IP telephone and other bi-directional peer-to-peer applications. Pete > > /* > Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life > winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to > http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 > */ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message