![]() ![]() ![]() You can think of PAT as a dynamic form of extended NAT. PAT is a type of Network Address Translation that translates inside local addresses to a single inside global address which would be in most cases the IP Address your ISP assigns you. ![]() Most people think that a standard consumer grade router does NAT to allow several PC’s to share a single internet connection however this operation is called Port Address Translation (PAT). When most people think of Network Address Translation (NAT) they immediately think of the operation of Port Address Translation where you can translate many internal RFC1918 private addresses to a single public globally routable IP address.
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