Re: What is NAT?
- From: Randy Yates <yates@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:54:24 -0400
Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
Anyway to answer the original question, NAT is an acronym for Network
Address Translation-- the router takes a packet from your machine with its
internal address ( say 192.168.0.2, port number 80) and translates it to
the address of the router itself ( 142.56.98.7) with a high port number (
way 3080) and remembers that that port is associated with port 80 on
192.168.0.2.
t is a way of having the router with its external address pretend to be any
one of the machines on the inside network.
As with many names/acronyms, it sounds more intimidating than it
really is.
Thank you. I appreciate your sane, simple, informative response.
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