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I thought the point of NAT was that don't know the destination IP address? It's that of the NAT router.
by topbanana 17y ago
I thought the point of NAT was that don't know the destination IP address? It's that of the NAT router.
- bensummers 17y agoI am referring to the mapping on the NAT router. And the source does know the destination IP address, because it addresses the packet to that address. The NAT router rewrites the ports and source address on all the packets traversing it. http://www.google.com/search?q=how+nat+works http://www.google.com/search?q=how+nat+works
- topbanana 17y agoI think you're talking about outgoing connections. The number of incoming connections is the problem here. That's limited in all operating systems as IPv4 only supports 64k ports