Re:I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine
by throw0101c on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:30PM
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> For some reason whenever somebody suggests that NAT might have security benefits, there is usually some hysterical screeching about how that isn't true.
It is not the address translation mechanism that does the protecting but rather the state tracking.
Until very recently I was with an ISP with IPv6, and things like my home printer had IPv6 addresses—but just because they were globally addressable did not mean that they were globally reachable.
It is not the address translation mechanism that does the protecting but rather the state tracking.
Until very recently I was with an ISP with IPv6, and things like my home printer had IPv6 addresses—but just because they were globally addressable did not mean that they were globally reachable.