In this installment we are going to discuss your home router, Network Address translation (NAT), and how they interact with devices on your home Local Area Network (LAN) allowing you to access the Internet. (more…)
Network Address Translation or NAT is a process that allows a private network segment to use a single public IP address for all internal clients, while hiding the client private IP address. There are a number of different ways to achieve this, but we are going to stay away from overly detailed technical discussions of the various options. Instead, we will focus on the fairly standardized outcome of the process. (more…)