From the course: Networking Foundations: IP Addressing
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Introducing NAT
- [Instructor] Network address translation certainly has an interesting history. By the way, you'll often see it as N-A-T, but we don't pronounce it that way we call it NAT. While it was originally looked upon as a temporary bandage for the address shortage that IPV4 was facing in the world, it quickly gain ground as a technology that could be very useful in its own right. First, let us talk about the original idea and use case. If we have all the private networks in the world adopt the RFC 1918 private IP address space, then this would free up massive numbers of public IP addresses for use on the public internet. And sure enough, this solution worked and worked well. By the way, it's called RFC 1918 private IP addressing because there's a request for comments document and it's numbered 1918 that specified this idea. You can do a Google search on RFC 1918 and you can read the original document. It's very readable and it's…
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