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Old 12-11-2005, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by gresch
uhhhh, NAT does nothing but allow many computers on one side of a router to use 1 IP address on the other.... it's not designed as a security feature in any way. It was developed to save a company from not having to have a "real" IP address for every device on the inside of their network. If NAT didn't exist, ARIN would have run out of IP addresses to allocate a long long long time ago.
I agree. Depending upon the routing that is built into the device it may or may not allows communication depending upon the configuration of the device. As you know, by default, most Linksys routers block most communications.

Hey, aren't you supposed to be a production guy?
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