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The Rise of NAT - Network Address Translation

Let's say we take some of the IPv4 addresses and make them reusable LAN only Addresses

LAN Side

Private Addresses OK

We will use 17 Million as our example – Leaving 4.28 Billion for Public Use

Now all we need is a device capiable of doing this translation on every packet bound for the WAN side

WAN Side

Public Addresses Only