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by Dagger2 61 days ago
It will let them in without a port forward in place. The port forward just rewrites the IP on an incoming connection, nothing more.
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general1465 61 days ago
If you can reuse opened connection, but that will work with firewall too.
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Dagger2 61 days ago
You don't need any tricks like that. Regular new connections will work.
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general1465 60 days ago
No it won't because that's not how NAT is working.
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Dagger2 59 days ago
It will, and if you test it then it does.

NAT doesn't apply to inbound connections if you don't have a matching port forward rule, so it kind of doesn't matter how NAT works here. This is pure routing, not NAT.

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