Thread: Can NTL see past a router?
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Old 03-01-2006, 17:08   #11
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Re: Can NTL see past a router?
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I have a Belkin Pre-N wireless (3 ariels) and it most certainly has a firewall. It will respond to pings unless you tell it not too. The firewall is SPI (stateful packet inspection) and NAT (no PAT unfortunately). You can turn off firewall, especially if set router to Access Point mode where firewall is off implicitly.

I think many of the Belkin stuff is similar.
Nah it's ok most of these actually use NAPT and just call it NAT for short (NAPT = network and port address translation)

Pure NAT would keep the same port going in as out such as router DMZ where packets keep the same port all the way through
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