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by j1elo 1987 days ago
> 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.