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All those consumer gateway boxen that do NAT can also do firewalling. The ones supporting IPv6 even tend to present the same (or similar) UI for "create firewal
by slrz 9y ago
All those consumer gateway boxen that do NAT can also do firewalling. The ones supporting IPv6 even tend to present the same (or similar) UI for "create firewall allow rule" and "create static port/host mapping".
- lend000 9y agoI agree -- but they don't. Let's imagine that the Internet started with IPv6 and NAT never became the standard. How many legacy routers would there be floating around with no built-in firewall? How would that affect the security landscape? Everyone seems to misunderstand that I am not advocating for what should be/should have been, but instead providing the benefits of how things played out given the reality of the world.