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When most people say "NAT", in the home user / consumer sense, they really mean "PAT": ports mapping to multiple private IPs using a single public IP.
by icedchai 2y ago
When most people say "NAT", in the home user / consumer sense, they really mean "PAT": ports mapping to multiple private IPs using a single public IP.
- Dagger2 2y ago"PAT" is not doing any firewalling either. (It does rely on state tracking, which it shares in common with stateful firewalls, but you could run a LAN with either a stateless firewall or no firewall if you really wanted to meet the "nothing in common with a firewall" requirement.)