Re: What would you tell someone new to computers in relation to how to securing it
From: Tim S. Knight (spu_kcab_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/14/04
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:46:39 -0000
NeoSadist <neosad1st@charter.net> wrote in
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>> And, in case you didn't know it, a Router does not have to provide
>> NAT as you seem to understand it.
>
> NAT is network address translation. It's not even a firewall IMO,
> although it is considered one. All it does is translate and route
> information from the outside to the LAN, all the while hiding the
> private IP's it's routing to. NAT MUST take place for traffic to work
> properly behind it, or else a router without NAT might as well be
> called a switch or a hub.
>
No, it doesn't. There are thousands of routers out there that do nothing
but take an incoming packet, decrement the TTL, do a routing table lookup
and send it out the outgoing interface.
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