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Originally Posted by troydbrown
I have mine with firewall enabled without issue. As for disabling the firewall and the use of NAT you are safe. Your IP is not routable.
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Glad to hear it works with firewall enabled. You're correct that with NAT your internal IP is not routable, and NAT certainly does provide a level of protection. But over the last couple years, methods of attack have gotten a lot more sophisticated too, and there are a number of attack vectors that NAT won't protect you from. Most of the better modern routers have a SPI (stateful packet inspection) firewall, and its most definitely not considered good practice to run with that shut off if at all possible.