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Old August 6th, 2005, 02:16 PM
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Default Re: OT: Should computers stay on constantly?

NAT lets many LAN addresses share a WAN address and like a switchboard, directs the incomming packets to the correct LAN address.

Once a hacker sniffs out your internal addresses, or guesses, then he can defeat NAT.
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