Comment by cyberax

19 days ago

What is the definition of a "firewall"?

And it doesn't really matter. You can call it "alksjfaliskdfgh" if you wish. The fact is, NAT adds a security barrier that is incredibly effective in practice.

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bandrami  19 days ago

But it really doesn't. If you turned off NAT your computers would have the exact same security as they do with NAT.

  • cyberax  19 days ago

    Wrong. If I turn off the NAT on my router, my computers will not be able to get online. If I turn off the IPv6 firewall on my router, I won't see anything unusual.

    And yes, this has happened to me when I forgot to compile the IPv6 conntrack module.

    • bandrami  19 days ago

      I didn't say they would have the same capabilities, I said they would have the same security