Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 13:41:10 05/16/02
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The SPI is the firewall which actively checks incoming destinations against outgoing requests. If you disable you are merely using the less helpful Network address translation to protect you from intruders. NAT is where your non-Internet-routable address such as 192.168.xxx.xxx with Linksys, is translated to the ip address that the cable company assigned you, when you go out on the Internet, and back when the reply comes in. Something initiated from outside might get through unless there were a check against an outgoing request for the info that is incoming. kp
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