[Techtalk] Good firewall configuration tool for debian

[Mary]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Friday 09 April 2004 1:29 pm, Mary wrote:
> > I will rephrase Carla's statement as "NAT is necessary." It's
> > necessary for all those poor unfortunates who live in countries or
> > work in institutions that didn't realise how horrible NAT is in time
> > to grab themselves a huge proportion of available IPv4 addresses.
> > That is, pretty much everyone outside the US and a lot of people in
> > it.
> 
> I still don't understand what is horrible about NAT? As Meredydd and
> others said, there are many circumstances where you don't want to be a
> "peer." I think it's a great tool, and if I had unlimited routable IPs
> to play with, I would still use NAT.

My use of the word "horrible" in that sentence was mild sarcasm, so I
can't defend it. Sorry about the confusing phrasing.

-Mary