Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

[jg at freedesktop.org (Jim Gettys)]

On 01/16/2011 03:00 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

>> Can we *please* stop this pointless thread?
>>
>
> I don't think it pointless to network operators - NAT or not has
> operational impacts on troubleshooting, network design, addressing plans
> etc. I understand you aren't a network operator, so if you're not
> interested perhaps you should unsubscribe.
>
I'm sorry; it is the piece of the thread about whether network operators 
are going to hand out only single IP addresses  in IPv6 that had got my 
goat. I should have made that clear.

                    - Jim