[BlueOnyx:04829] Re: Firewall for Datacenter

[Ralf Quint]

At 01:16 PM 6/28/2010, Christoph Schneeberger wrote:


>>>>Also to note Smoothwall 
>>>><http://www.smoothwall.org/>http://www.smoothwall.org/
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>>>I looked hard at smoothwall even talked to them about the commercial
>>>version but when I wanted to use it without NAT, they said no.
>>>
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>>What is your problem with NAT?
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>>Ralf
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>
>IMHO, NAT gives no benefit at all but creates some interesting new problems.
>But thats really just my 2 centimes, maybe you can elaborate on what 
>benefits NAT would bring to Geralds situation ?


What interesting new problems? Sorry, but people that complain about 
NAT being prblematic seem never really have thought about it/use it.

Let's just end this discussion here, it doesn't seem to go anywhere...

Ralf