nuintari's rules of networking 0x13:

Seriously.

NAT is not a firewall.
NAT is not kind of a firewall.
NAT is not like a firewall.
NAT is not sort of a firewall.
NAT is not a firewall.

There is a world of difference between explicitly denied traffic, and traffic dropped because the device just didn't know what to do with it.

@nuintari
"But NATs are good!"
(Video was already old when uploaded to YT 15 years ago.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26BAlfWBm8
"Fanboy" series - IPv6 and NATs

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