Performance improvement for NAT in IPFIREWALL

Wed Jul 2 17:30:36 PDT 2003

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> By itself, NAT provides no benefit to security, and some implementations
> actually reduce the security of the system compared with not running NAT.  Let
> me pull out a couple of quotes from various people:

Please explain this point more.

Say I have 1000 win 9x boxes connected to the internet with routable IPs
and no firewall.  How will placing them behind a NAT box make them less
secure?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack