I would have thought so, but maybe it depends on the router.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:58 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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