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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] NAT
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:25:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2147483647.1064935529@[192.168.42.6]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32217.135.214.42.162.1064954559.squirrel@www.infernopark.com>


On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:42 PM -0400 vdharani@infernopark.com
wrote:


>> more than a casual interest for me.  I'm not particularly trusting of
>> those little NAT firewall boxes that everyone seems so enamored with
>> these days.
> whats wrong with it? I think those boxes works well (and act as
> plug-and- play firewalls).

Only if all[*] of your internal hosts do the uPnP dance with the NAT box.
None of mine do.

--lyndon

[*] Well, the ones that need to communicate with the world at large. In
my case that's all of the hosts on my internal network.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-30 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-30 19:14 Richard C Bilson
2003-09-30 20:42 ` vdharani
2003-09-30 21:25   ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2003-09-30 22:29     ` Charles Forsyth
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-16 16:49 [9fans] nat erik quanstrom
2008-11-16 17:28 ` Eris Discordia
2008-11-16 15:09 [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? sqweek
2008-11-16 15:22 ` [9fans] nat erik quanstrom
2008-11-16 15:54   ` lucio
2008-11-16 15:52     ` erik quanstrom
2008-11-16 16:21       ` lucio
2008-11-18  5:43   ` Sergey Zhilkin
2003-09-30 19:47 [9fans] NAT Richard C Bilson
2003-09-30 20:13 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-30 18:05 Richard C Bilson
2003-09-30 18:12 ` Brantley Coile
2003-09-30 18:25   ` ynl
2003-09-30 19:44   ` vdharani
2003-09-30 18:36     ` Brantley Coile
2003-09-30 18:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-09-30 18:52   ` boyd, rounin

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