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What is a nat and route ? how to allow both , and what are the basic types of nat and route ?

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Date Posted: 2013/10/08
Umer Farooq Janjua
by Umer Farooq Janjua , Network Engineer , GOVT. POST GRADUATE COLLEGES

NAT is Network Adress Translation . NAT does translations, maps addresses from one to other.There are three types of NAT

1- Static NAT

2- NAT overload

3- Dynamic NAT with overload

Route is a path to get to required destination. There are two types of routes:

1- Static Routes

2- Dynamic Routes 

Michael Fakhouri
by Michael Fakhouri , Hardware and software Engineer in NCR and GRG , Tamika 4 Technology 'NCR & GRG Banking'

Network Address Translation (NAT):

Is the process where a network device, usually a firewall, assigns a public address to a computer (or group of computers) inside a private network. The main use of NAT is to limit the number of public IP addresses an organization or company must use, for both economy and security purposes.

 

Routers take information that arrives through your broadband signal via a modem, decipher it, and deliver it to your computer. The router will also choose the best route for the data packet so that you receive the information quickly.

Many different types of routers have been developed so that the information coming over your broadband connection can be sent to a variety of different receivers including your computer, your phone, and others.

 Routers:

Routers take information that arrives through your broadband signal via a modem, decipher it, and deliver it to your computer. The router will also choose the best route for the data packet so that you receive the information quickly.

Many different types of routers have been developed so that the information coming over your broadband connection can be sent to a variety of different receivers including your computer, your phone, and others.

 

 

Ahmad Yassein
by Ahmad Yassein , Infrastructure Network Manager , Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC)

In addition to the valuable answers above, remember that routing is performed before nating for outbound traffic and the opposite is true for inbound traffic.

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Network Address Translation change the real IP address into and Mapped IP address and NAT is composed of two steps: Translate the real IP address into the Mapped IP address and translate it back to the real IP address for when the traffic return.  Below mentioned are types of NAT

1.       Static NAT

2.       Dynamic NAT

3.       NAT Overloading

4.       Dynamic PAT

Route is a road map /Path toward a destination. Below mentioned are the types of Route

1.       Static Route

2.       Dynamic Route

3.       Default Route.

 

Hope you find this helpful.

 

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