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Comment by Dagger2

1 month ago

You could turn NAT off completely and still no-one on the Internet could reach your 192.168.0.7. There's no security perimeter coming from NAT here.

> And the NAT router won't send a packet that arrives with its public IP as dstIP to any machine behind it

Yes, of course. The problem is when a packet arrives with the IP of a LAN machine.

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