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NAT does nothing? The NAT setup is the reason incoming connections don't reach devices on the LAN. I get that you can phrase this as NAT actually being the thin
by hot_gril 4y ago
NAT does nothing? The NAT setup is the reason incoming connections don't reach devices on the LAN. I get that you can phrase this as NAT actually being the thing forwarding the packets, and on a home ipv4 router without NAT the incoming packets would just go nowhere, but everyone is talking about the realistic options of NAT vs device having own public IP addr.
I get that an ipv6 router can have a firewall with good defaults blocking incoming connections, emulating that aspect of a NAT.
- Dagger2 4y agoIndeed, it does nothing. NAT won't stop an inbound connection to your network. You already needed to use a firewall for that in v4. The type of NAT we're talking about here *only* applies to outbound connections. It doesn't do anything at all to inbound connections.