alt Hacker NewsPeople expect their router to act as a firewall too, via NAT. If you take this away and force people to buy an additional piece of hardware to restore the expected functionality, they won't switch. Simple as that.
People expect their router to act as a firewall too, via NAT. If you take this away and force people to buy an additional piece of hardware to restore the expected functionality, they won't switch. Simple as that.
All modern NAT routers include a firewall. They don't "act as a firewall too, via NAT", they have both NAT and firewall functionality, even for IPv4. It has been like this for a long time now.