Configuration and Management
3.7NAT
The Ericsson W3x includes a NAT (Network Address Translation) service. With this service several computers on a LAN/WLAN can share the same Internet connection using a single public IP address.
Devices on the LAN/WLAN use dedicated private IP addresses, which cannot be used on the Internet. When a computer on the LAN/WLAN want to send a data package to the Internet, its IP address is automatically translated by NAT to an external (public) IP address allowed on the Internet. When a reply receives to this external IP address, it is translated back to the origin private IP address to be able to found its way back to the sending computer on the LAN/WLAN.
In this way, details about the local devices remain private and it is not possible to access a local computer on the LAN/WLAN directly from the Internet.
The NAT page includes the following settings:
Figure 37 - NAT page
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