How will a router with NAT disabled behave?
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I noticed that my home router has the option to disable NAT. How will the router behave with NAT turned off? Will it simply broadcast all incoming traffic to the subnet?
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With NAT enabled, the router will modify the IP header in outgoing packets so that the source address matches your Internet public address (and vice versa for incoming packets). If you disable NAT, it won't do that anymore. So, basically, you will b…
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