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IP packets originating from or addressed to a private IP address cannot be routed through the public Internet.
by blueflow 2y ago
IP packets originating from or addressed to a private IP address cannot be routed through the public Internet.
- ffsm8 2y agoYou can't send a packet addressed to i.e. 192.168.1.2 oder the Internet, sure. But that wasn't what we were talking about either. You can connect to the device that's behind a nat and has that ip address. I've linked to one of the best known strategies for that, hole punching. Feel free to read that to broaden your horizon
- blueflow 2y agoLook what Arnavion wrote in this thread previously: > If your firewall is disabled, an incoming v4 packet on the WAN interface with destination IP = a NAT'ed LAN device's address like 192.168.1.2 ....