Linux Explore » IP https://blog.linuxexplore.com Exploring Linux Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:30:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 What is Network Address Translation? https://blog.linuxexplore.com/2012/07/28/what-is-network-address-translation/ https://blog.linuxexplore.com/2012/07/28/what-is-network-address-translation/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:18:13 +0000 http://linuxexplore.wordpress.com/?p=496 Network Address Translation (NAT) is the process where a network device, usually a firewall, assigns a public address to a computer (or group of computers) inside a private network. The main use of NAT is to limit the number of public IP addresses an organization or company must use, for both economy and security purposes.

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