NAT

[owensdj]

I was wondering how NAT(Network Address Translation) works? If I had to guess I'd say NAT routers keep a lookup table with each entry containing the private IP address and MAC address of each machine on the private network. It uses this table to replace the Internet IP address of incoming TCP/IP packets with the appropriate private IP address.

Seems like it has to be more to NAT than this.

 

[IceFoundry]

http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/nat.html

http://linas.org/linux/load.html

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nat.htm

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/nat/

That should be PLENTY of info for you.. hehe.. lots of reading!