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by dsr_ 1988 days ago
No, not at all. NAT means Network (and port) Address Translation. If you don't change the contents of packets, it's not NAT.
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> If you don't change the contents of packets, it's not NAT.

Oh well, yes. I agree.

I was thinking more from the point of view of the behavior it causes: essentially establishing some sort of look-up table to verify if an incoming packet corresponds to a previously outgoing one. Where, if the entry in that table gets deleted, the incoming packets suddenly start being rejected.