On Jan 13, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:16:27 pm valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
>> 140 million compromised PC's, most of them behind a NAT, can't be wrong. :)
> 
> How many more would there be if most PC's were not behind NAT or stateful 
> firewalling?  
> 
Here you've hit the key... "or stateful firewalling". Stateful firewalling 
provides the security.
NAT just mangles the header. Overloaded NAT depends inherently on the stateful 
firewall
and this has lead to confusion where people don't realize that the term "NAT" 
is often
(mis)used to refer to the combined process.

Owen


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