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NatJack: What a NAT-Table Hijack Means When You're the One Designing the NAT Boundary
NatJack broke a twenty-year-old assumption about who you can trust behind a shared NAT. Most of the coverage this week is either pure vulnerability research or "check your home router." This is the multi-tenant hub version of that question.
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IPsec Deep Dive Part 3: NAT vs IPsec — NAT-T, Port Forwarding, and the Fortinet SDWAN Reality
NAT breaks IPsec three distinct ways — AH's ICV, ESP's missing ports, and IKE's rewritten source port. Part 3 covers each break, how NAT-D detects it and NAT-T's UDP 4500 encapsulation repairs it, when port forwarding is still required, and what it all means for SDWAN spokes behind CPE NAT.
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A Day in the Life of a Packet on a 50G FortiGate, Part 4: Firewall Policy, NAT, and Security Profiles
Routing told the packet where it's going. Firewall policy decides whether it's allowed, NAT rewrites it, and security profiles inspect it. Inside the iprope chain, central NAT vs policy NAT, VIPs, IP pools, and the flow-vs-proxy UTM pipeline.