Difference between NAT and NAPT?

Nifty Fedora Mitch niftyfedora at niftyegg.com
Tue Apr 28 05:51:13 UTC 2009


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:51:52PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> 
> In short, what is the difference? Are there any (dis)advantages of
> using one over the other?

Put your subject line in a search engine like Google.

  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~lewis/networkpages/m05s09NAT.htm

For most "mortals" NAT is just fine.
NAPT may be needed on a large private network but 
the hardware/ software has to work harder and thus
may cost more.




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