Re: What is NAT?

On 07/23/2007 05:26 PM, Randy Yates wrote:
Can someone please (without asking me to Google) explain simply and
plainly what NAT is?

But, why would anyone over here will do your homework? What the hell do
we expect you will do by knowing it, when you already are reluctant to
learn and, or use Google?

Is it, basically, the mechanism that my router uses to forward TCP or
UDP packets that come in to my router from the ISP to a specific machine
on my internal network (and vice-versa)?

Yep, almost yes; let me correct s/forward/translate/ or transpose the
packets.

BTW, here at
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1 is
a nice page about [S|D]NAT.

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