When designing products or protocols, there's often a trade-off to be made. Often, it's in favor of convenience instead of ...

THE FAST-GROWING use of the Internet led to a shortage of IP addresses. To deal with this problem, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) defined NAT (Network Address Translation), which is a way ...

Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

Since almost all games nowadays are online, it is a sin not to think about optimizing the home network. Almost all routers have either or both NAT Boost and QoS features to aid the user’s game ...

I'm setting up NAT tables and some of the devices will only use 80 for the web GUI. However the linksys router will only let me assign 80 to one internal IP.<BR><BR>What I'd like to do is point an ...

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there’s no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will ...

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6 Types of Network Address Translation: Which One to Use? Your email has been sent Even though we’re no longer running out of IP addresses, Network Address Translation still plays a vital role. Learn ...

Stop me if you've heard this already, but we ran out of public IPv4 addresses years ago. Yet, the internet didn't grind to a halt, and the explosive growth of internet-connected devices didn't slow ...