VDict - Definition of Network Address Translation

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Network Address Translation

networking (NAT, or Network Address Translator, Virtual LAN)

A hardware device currently being developed and used to extend

the Internet addresses already in use. NAT has been

suggested as an alternative to adopting IPv6 (IPng). It

allows duplicate IP addresses to be used within a corporation

and unique addresses outside.

["NATs are next naughty Internet issue", Christine

Hudgins-Bonafield [email protected], in "Network

Computing", March 1, 1995].

(1995-04-01)

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