Networking noob here. I want to prevent all incoming requests except through a specific port, and that traffic is forwarded to a specific device on the network. NAT seems to do that just fine, it’s almost like a kind of firewall by itself. What kind of threats are there that requires more than just NAT for security?

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    IP Internet Protocol
    IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
    NAT Network Address Translation
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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