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Yes and you do this accidentally by plugging WAN cable into LAN port of the router, effectively bridging your interal devices with ISP, and if DHCP from ISP wins the race against your router, then your PC is on global address with no firewall.

True story!

Things like Homenet that tried to fix this did not go anywhere



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