I'm no networking expert but I think NAT doesn't assign the IP addresses, DHCP does. And at least on my router, you can turn off DHCP and setup static IP addres

I'm no networking expert but I think NAT doesn't assign the IP addresses, DHCP does. And at least on my router, you can turn off DHCP and setup static IP addresses for your nodes instead (you can even use some static, some DHCP). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Address_Translation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Address_Translation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhcp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhcp edit: I don't think he was claiming that either, it's just that someone trying to learn networking basics from that article could easily get misguided.