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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by dspillett on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:48PM (#21630732)
NAT is really firewalling at all. It just accidentally implies a "default block new inward" policy, which any good actual firewall setup for IPv4/IPv6/other would have as a default anyway.

Were it not for home routers supporting NAT because they need to with IPv4, the same routers would have a basic firewall with that default block rule in place.

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by jacquesm on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:49PM (#21630740)
I think you meant 'isn't', and we're in agreement. It is just that it has some of the same effects.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by dspillett on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:09AM (#21636950)
Yep, small accident between the brain and the typing fingers there.
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