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Originally posted by iNViCTuS
NAT in itself is not intended to provide any type of security, but what it does provide is obscurity. A static NAT (one-to-one) does just maps a single public IP to a single private IP, so everything destined for the public address is simply passed to the private network. So this provides nothing for you at all in the context of security.
PAT or hide NAT or whatever else you might call it, hides multiple hosts behind a single IP address and this is where the topic of security and NAT can be arguable. Like I said earlier, NAT in itself does not provide any type of security, but certainly if your source IP is disguised, a hacker would have a little bit more of a difficult time, although definately not impossible.
Hope this helps!!
Understood, with that being said...As long as the gateway machine is firewalled, would it require a bit of work to get thru to a machine on the network?