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The discussion was about the behavior of PAT, and PAT has no influence on whether or not an attacker has a route to you.
by Dagger2 7y ago
The discussion was about the behavior of PAT, and PAT has no influence on whether or not an attacker has a route to you.
- icedchai 7y agoThe discussion is about NAT and PAT in general. 99% of the time it is used with unrouteable private addresses. This means even in the absence of a firewall there is still some level of security. End of story.
- Dagger2 7y agoIt's common to use it with RFC1918 addresses, but that still doesn't change the behavior of PAT. PAT will not drop connections, and thus won't provide you with security.