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Note that "NAT translations" (for IP) actually use a combination of five different fields (a "5-tuple"): source IP address, source port, destination IP address,
by jlgaddis 8y ago
Note that "NAT translations" (for IP) actually use a combination of five different fields (a "5-tuple"): source IP address, source port, destination IP address, destination port, and protocol.
This means that you aren't limited to, for example, 65,535 TCP sessions on a single host even though there are only that many ports available.