alt Hacker News> NAT is not the firewall.
NAT _is_ a firewall. And a much safer one than IPv6 firewalls, because NAT will fail safe if misconfigured.
> NAT is not the firewall.
NAT _is_ a firewall. And a much safer one than IPv6 firewalls, because NAT will fail safe if misconfigured.
NAT is not a firewall: all it does is rewrite packets, it does not drop them.