The Basics of Network Address Translation (NAT)
The last video in the 2-hour-long Network Addressing part of How Networks Really Work discusses Network Address Translation.
After watching it, you might want to spend some extra quality time (with a bit of soap opera vibe) enjoying the recent Dual ISP deployment operational issues and uncertainties thread on the v6ops mailing list with a “surprising” result: NPTv6 or NAT66 is the least horrible way to do it.
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