Network Address Translation (NAT)

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Abbreviation(s) and Synonym(s):

Definition(s):

  A routing technology used by many firewalls to hide internal system addresses from an external network through use of an addressing schema.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-41 Rev. 1

  A mechanism for mapping addresses on one network to addresses on another network, typically private addresses to public addresses.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-77 under Network Address Translation [Superseded]

  The process of mapping addresses on one network to addresses on another network.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-86 under Network Address Translation

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Network Address Translation (NAT)

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