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Most consumer NATs are completely permissive. Put a single device behind it, through some traffic at the NAT, and it will cheerfully forward it to the host desp
by msbarnett 7y ago
Most consumer NATs are completely permissive. Put a single device behind it, through some traffic at the NAT, and it will cheerfully forward it to the host despite the data not being correlated with any outbound packets.
With multiple hosts it’s going to depend on the implementation, but it will likely forward it to something it thinks can handle it, because most NATs try to be as transparent as they can, to not trip up unknowledgeable consumers.
NAT is not, and has never been a security measure. Just run a damn firewall if you want to drop incoming traffic. The firewall gives you everything you want; you aren’t gaining a damn thing from the NAT.