I've been considering securing my home network for a while and I'm wondering if a router's NAT firewall is good enough to protect oneself or whether I should have a dedicated physical firewall ...
The first step to correctly answering whether you can change NAT settings without logging into the router is knowing exactly what NAT is and how it works. Then can you figure out how to change NAT ...
You may have seen inexpensive home routers described as "NAT firewalls." For example, Linksys says of its BEFSR11 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router, "...the built-in NAT technology acts as a firewall ...