said by spi :
BTW since you brought it up NAT/PAT as you call it are not one in the same.
Sigh I wish I could put anonymous trolls on ignore. I also wish the system were not all of a sudden informing me of every reply by an anonymous user.
Actually, if you read Cisco
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www.cisco.com/en/US/tech ··· 31.shtmlOverloading A form of dynamic NAT that maps multiple unregistered IP addresses to a single registered IP address by using different ports. Known also as PAT (Port Address Translation), single address NAT or port-level multiplexed NAT.
PAT is the name of a specific type of NAT.
I'm done feeding the troll. You do not need a stateful firewall, which is what this topic is about, to do active FTP.