alt Hacker News>Why would you not just use a regular firewall?
No idea, but people do it. Every time this comes up on HN there are dozens of comments about how they like hiding their devices behind a NAT, for security
>Why would you not just use a regular firewall?
No idea, but people do it. Every time this comes up on HN there are dozens of comments about how they like hiding their devices behind a NAT, for security
Just because people regularly bring up a non sequitur doesn't mean there actually is a problem.
"I have a device acting as both a NAT and a stateful firewall, why are you making me switch to IPv6 and in the process drop both the NAT and the stateful firewall?" is a non sequitur.