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by sedawkgrep 155 days ago
Who exactly is going to route/send an RFC1918 address to an Internet gateway?

Are you implying your ISP itself is going to do this? Because the Internet at-large doesn't have routes for your internal address space.

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> Who exactly is going to route/send an RFC1918 address to an Internet gateway?

The GP is talking about 1:1 'basic' NAT:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2663#section-4.1.1

The same problem applies to masquerading. Routers are happy to route packets they receive, and NAT (in whatever form) isn't the tool you use to drop those packets.