From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jun 1 12:55:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17050 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 12:55:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gta.gta.com (gta.gta.com [199.120.225.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA16894 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 12:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@gta.com) Message-Id: <199806012000.QAA14487@gta.gta.com> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.6.0. Received: (from paul@localhost) by uno.gta.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA27208 for freebsd-net@Freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:51:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:51:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Emerson To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipv6 network addresses Newsgroups: freebsd.net Organization: Global Technology Associates, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <13679.44784.627668.295652@silver.sms.fi> you wrote: : 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 Repeat after me: All NAT solutions are not created equal. You can make an Internet telephone call through NAT/firewall our product. CU-SeeMe, RealAudio, and the list goes on. Transparent NAT is not a simple proposition but it can be done. -- Paul Emerson (paul@gta.com) Global Technology Associates, Inc. Tel. 407-380-0220 Fax. 407-380-6080 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message