Post #2334821

@furrfu@mastodon.social That has nothing to do with #NAT. That's just stateful inspection, which existed before NAT was invented. NAT overload (and •only• NAT overload) requires stateful inspection and almost always embeds it, but it’s an independent function from translation. NAT's purpose is to alleviate address exhaustion and nothing more. My home router has a stateful firewall for IPv6 and it provides the same benefits you’re attributing to NAT without doing any translation at all. #NATisNotSecurity