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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by Dagger2 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:00PM (#35281186)
Indeed, it does nothing. NAT won't stop an inbound connection to your network. You already needed to use a firewall for that in v4.

The type of NAT we're talking about here *only* applies to outbound connections. It doesn't do anything at all to inbound connections.

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