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Re: Setting up a home gateway/router



On Sat, 24 May 2014 18:27:28 +0200
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:

> Huh ? NAT does not make things simpler but more complicated !
> What would be the benefit of using NAT here ?

Security by obscurity. NAT is one more hassle the badguys have to get
through to get to your stuff. As botnets turn into brute force
supercomputers, security by obscurity, used properly, is beginning to
have some credibility again.

SteveT

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