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Comment by throw0101a

17 days ago

> Who exactly is going to route/send an RFC1918 address to an Internet gateway?

The GP is talking about 1:1 'basic' NAT:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2663#section-4.1.1

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Dagger2  16 days ago

The same problem applies to masquerading. Routers are happy to route packets they receive, and NAT (in whatever form) isn't the tool you use to drop those packets.

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