Re: Belkin not-real-firewall?

Duane Arnold wrote:

If you have a NAT packet filtering FW router that meets the specs in the
link for *what does a Internet/network FW do?*, then you have one that
has a FW.

But it's as clear as mud to me, unfortunately. Does my Belkin, which
claims to have a firewall, NOT do the things that page describes? I
know that the firewall and the NAT are independently controlled in the
router settings and can be turned on/off separately, so they're not the
same thing (the router isn't just calling its NAT "firewall").

Is this sort of like how my Kia is not a "real car"? Or more like how
my CRV doesn't have "real all-wheel drive"? Or is it more clear-cut
than that?

.

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