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Home routers often greatly simplify the interface.

BT, one of the largest ISP's in the UK, only allow the configuration of destination IP and external/internal ports[0].

I've never expected my NAT to do anything other than map ports. I can see why the ability to map source IPs to different ports would be useful but relying on that as a security feature feels like a foot-gun. I wouldn't feel comfortable exposing an application that doesn't have some form of authentication and/or blacklisting.

[0] https://portforward.com/bt/home-hub-6/Port%20Forwarding.jpg




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