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> Even a correctly-configured NAT will let connections in from outside, and a lot of people don't understand this. Yes, that's called port forwarding and it is
by general1465 6mo ago
> Even a correctly-configured NAT will let connections in from outside, and a lot of people don't understand this.
Yes, that's called port forwarding and it is normal thing. You actually want that.
- Dagger2 6mo agoIt will let them in without a port forward in place. The port forward just rewrites the IP on an incoming connection, nothing more.
- general1465 6mo agoIf you can reuse opened connection, but that will work with firewall too.
- Dagger2 6mo agoYou don't need any tricks like that. Regular new connections will work.
- general1465 6mo agoNo it won't because that's not how NAT is working.
- Dagger2 6mo agoIt will, and if you test it then it does. NAT doesn't apply to inbound connections if you don't have a matching port forward rule, so it kind of doesn't matter how NAT works here. This is pure routing, not NAT.