[wplug] DSL prep
Brian A. Seklecki
lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Thu Feb 7 00:40:43 EST 2008
> Don't most hardware routers block incoming connections on
> specific ports unless you open them? That was the default on
> my Linksys and DLink routers, I then only opened up ssh to
> my file server.
Most hardware routers (aka, "Cisco IOS 12.x") are stateless IP
forwarding engines.
Everything else is glorified NAT+PAT and inherently block incoming ports
by virtue of the NAT+PAT RFC1918 address translation.
~BAS
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