Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Is there something wrong, or incorrect, about this?

NAT _can_ either block incoming connections or not, it depends on the
type of NAT being done.  1:1 NAT without port translation, for example,
will only block something if you firewall it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation

And routing tricks might actually let an attacker close to you
topology-wise talk to your private addresses.

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