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by gucci-on-fleek 2 hours ago
> 1) my stateful firewall is going to break most of that anyway

Stateful firewalls and even regular NAT aren't much of an issue for P2P, but CGNAT is much more problematic [0].

> 2) if cg nat is as popular as people claim then they won’t be doing that as it’s not an edge case

You'd hope, but people tend to be pretty slow to update their networking assumptions, so this is still pretty common. And it doesn't help that most CGNAT users tend to be either from poorer, since poorer countries and mobile data providers are far more likely to use CGNAT than legacy North American ISPs.

[0]: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works