packets hit NAT table
 before port forward isnt it?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:46 AM Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I didn't realize that would happen with port forwarding, but that makes
> sense. but to be fair, the people at Ubiquiti are probably assuming you'd
> be forwarding to a router and there wouldn't be any other devices.
>
> I guess the Nintendo people just assume no other devices are important...
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:28 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Correct. DMZ does not break the Internet access for all other devices.
>>
>> Forwarding ports 1 through 65535 to a single device as suggested by some
>> insane people at Nintendo and Ubiquiti will break the Internet for all
>> other devices.
>>
>>
>> On 4/20/2021 12:24 PM, Zach Underwood wrote:
>>
>> DMZ does not break the internet access for all other devices behind the
>> NAT. DMZ ip is where the unsolicited packets will be forward. Solicited
>> packets with a matching NAT state will be forwarded on to the original
>> host.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:07 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Except DMZ only forwards the ports not being used for other connections.
>>>
>>> This breaks the Internet for all devices except the one you forwarded
>>> ports to.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/20/2021 11:30 AM, Mathew Howard wrote:
>>>
>>> Isn't that basically the same thing a DMZ does?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:18 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oddly enough here's "UI-Team" on the Ubiquiti forum proposing the same
>>>> thing as a solution for a "DMZ"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://community.ui.com/questions/UFiber-Loco-NanoG-No-DMZ/1f7720eb-f2fe-4af3-b312-1226de3a8d0b
>>>>
>>>> Insane.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/20/2021 10:15 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Agreed, but apparently doesn't work when the router is a UFiber ONU.
>>>>
>>>> I'm more amused at Nintendo's suggestion.  One of our tech support guys
>>>> actually tried it and it broke the customer's internet on all devices that
>>>> weren't the switch.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/20/2021 8:57 AM, Darin Steffl wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Consoles should never need port forwarding. Enable UPnP on the router
>>>> and you're done.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 1:46 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Trying to help a guy with a Nintendo Switch issue and encountered this
>>>>> official tech support info:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22272/~/how-to-set-up-a-routers-port-forwarding-for-a-nintendo-switch-console
>>>>>
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