Chapter 6. Network Address Translation and Security
This chapter covers the following key topics:
Security Benefits of Network Address Translation— This section discusses the security benefits that result from setting up Network Address Translation.
Disadvantages of Relying on NAT for Security— This section discusses the consequences of depending on Network Address Translation for site security.
Network address translation (NAT) is the mechanism by which a packet's IP addresses are modified to be something other than what they originally were. This is a requirement for networks that use the RFC 1918 addressing scheme. These IP addresses cannot be routed on the Internet and therefore need to be converted to routable IP addresses at the edge ...
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