On Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 4:18:09 AM, Ju Kong Fui wrote:
> Does NAT really help to hide/secure the internal network? Or it is just
> purely a method to help easing the pain of having not enough of public IP
> addr?
i wouldn't say hiding your IP address is that much help for
security. but the side effect of having incoming connections blocked
makes the network less accessible and possibly harder to break.
but, that also puts limitations on the users. so if you don't need
NAT, don't use NAT.
just my opinion.
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