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AI-generatedDropped traffic when accessing WAN IP from LAN with NAT Reflection disabled
Determine why internal LAN hosts cannot reach a forwarded service via the firewall's public IP when NAT Reflection is disabled, and whether enabling Pure NAT or Proxy NAT restores connectivity without introducing application‑level issues. Consider the need to keep processing overhead low on modest hardware, avoid breaking protocols that embed IP addresses (s