ToddAndMargo wrote:
> John John - MVP wrote:
>> I think that your assessment of how easily NAT can be broken is
>> overblown, consider this, if your firewall tests can't make it through
>> your NAT box it isn't as flimsy as you make it out to be!
>
> You are missing the point. The firewall test sites that don't shoot
> through NAT do not tag the secondary off internet address on to
> their attack packets. In those tests, everything comes back perfect
> because they are being rejected by the router.
>
> Now if the test site took your secondary off Internet address from
> your initial SYN packet to log into their site and probed you, the
> router would pass their probes right through.
>
>
>> If anyone is that worried they can put their private IP address in the
>> Class A range and give the hackers a "few" more doors to knock on.
>> But I do have to agree with you that you get what you pay for and that
>> a $15 router may not be the best thing to have between your network
>> and the internet!
>>
>> John
>
> Best Buy is ready and waiting for the $15.00 crowd: their Geek Squid
> will happily wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall windows for you!

Squid was a typo. :-)

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