Comment by namibj
Taking the detour to the NAT.
Taking the detour to the NAT.
Your typical router shouldn't fill up its port mapping table. In fact, the 4th layer isn't involved at all so "ports" don't even exist as a concept.
Sure but none of this poses a latency or bandwidth bottleneck.
NAT registers in the microseconds for packet processing time, that isn’t even comparable to Internet path jitter.