How does NAT work, I know that it opens the ethernet packet and replaces the private (non routable) IP address with the router's IP address but how does it know which private IP address to send the ...

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 ...

Any general-use IP protocol stack that supports IPv6 also supports IPv4. That is, it is dual stack capable. “General-use” is an important qualifier here: Certainly there will be specialized devices ...

Logically, the NAT computer looked like is was on the edge to the computers using it, so naturally it makes since to put the NAT operation in edge routers, or in layer 2 switches that connect to cable ...