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Today in our newest take on "older technology is better": why NAT rules!

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[–] Thiakil@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago

Instead of nat and port forwards that rewrite, your firewall is set to only forward specific traffic, exactly how'd you'd configure outbound forwarding on a nat network (but opposite directions)

Open forwarding is a router, not a firewall