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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by woleium on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:51PM (#26927784)
what you call 1:1 NAT is just called NAT by cisco, the stuff most folks think NAT is is actually NAT+PAT (like what you run on your home router with a single public IP)
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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by Dylan16807 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @03:50AM (#26931062)
Mostly, but NAT without PAT doesn't have to be 1:1. You could put 100 hosts behind 20 IP addresses without ever changing a port.
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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by xxpor on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:13AM (#26930311)
exactly, that's why I specified.
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