Networking noob here. I want to prevent all incoming requests except through a specific port, and that traffic is forwarded to a specific device on the network. NAT seems to do that just fine, it’s almost like a kind of firewall by itself. What kind of threats are there that requires more than just NAT for security?

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    IP Internet Protocol
    IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
    NAT Network Address Translation
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.

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