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Comment by donnachangstein

Globally routable doesn't mean you don't have firewalls in between filtering and blocking traffic. You can be globally routable but drop all incoming traffic at what you define as a perimeter. E.g. the WAN interface of a typical home network.

The concept is frequently misunderstood in that IPv4 consumer SOHO "routers" often combine a NAT and routing function with a firewall, but the functions are separate.

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