security without NAT?

2005-02-27 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, I have a thinking problem... If workstations in a private network have set up a gateway, but the gateway has no NAT-deamon running, are the workstations not able to be attacked? What happens if these workstations behind this gateway are serving unprotected services (like shares on

Re: security without NAT?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have a thinking problem... If workstations in a private network have set up a gateway, but the gateway has no NAT-deamon running, are the workstations not able to be attacked? What happens if these workstations behind this gateway are serving unprotected

Re: security without NAT?

2005-02-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Stevan Tiefert wrote: [ ... ] I understand that if these workstations wants to request answers from outside the private network are never getting answers, but is it possible to see and attack theses workstations from outside? If you avoid configuring a default route on the local machines, and