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On modern firewalls/routers, NAT is only one cooks in the network kitchen raining on this author's parade. Stateful Packet Inspection has timeouts too!

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But for TCP, you don't even need to be stateful just to prevent inbound connections, which is a huge win over NATs.

UDP still needs state tracking, unfortunately.

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