What are the FORWARD policy and NAT Rules?

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Most organizations are allotted a limited number of publicly routable IP addresses from their ISP. Due to this limited allowance, administrators must find creative ways to share access to Internet services without giving scarce IP addresses to every node on the LAN. Using private IP address is the common way to allow all nodes on a LAN to properly access network services internally and externa...

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