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That's true for TCP as well. Almost all consumer-grade routers block all incoming connection attempts, not just UDP. From a stateful firewall's point of view b
by lmns 9y ago
That's true for TCP as well. Almost all consumer-grade routers block all incoming connection attempts, not just UDP.
From a stateful firewall's point of view both UDP and TCP have state.
- trav4225 9y agoRight. I was assuming that the context here was connections being initiated by the client (as most are).
- kelnos 9y ago... in which case blocking is not an issue. Consumer-grade NAT hardware will no more block client-initiated UDP than it'll block client-initiated TCP, at least not without extra configuration.
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