Networking noob here. I want to prevent all incoming requests except through a specific port, and that traffic is forwarded to a specific device on the network. NAT seems to do that just fine, it’s almost like a kind of firewall by itself. What kind of threats are there that requires more than just NAT for security?

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    and IPv6 doesn’t use NAT at all.

    Not entirely true! It uses a type of NAT to translate IPv4 addresses into comparable IPv6 addresses.