Compex Technologies WPE54 manual Using NAT, Enabling NAT

Chapter 5 Further Configuration

5.3Using NAT

(Only available in Gateway and Wireless Routing Client mode)

NAT, also known as Network Address Translation, functions by transforming the private IP address of packets originating from hosts on your network so that they appear to be coming from a single public IP address and by restoring the destination public IP address to the appropriate private IP address for packets entering the private network. The multiple PCs on your network would then appear as a single client to the WAN interface.

Enabling NAT

Click on NAT from the CONFIGURATION menu.

By default, the NAT Status radio button is enabled.

To change the NAT Status:

Select the appropriate radio button.

Click on the Apply button.

NOTE

Disabling NAT will disable Internet Sharing. Broadband Internet sharing requires this option to be Enabled.

When NAT is enabled, your network is not accessible to the WAN. However, implementing virtual servers allows you to host Internet servers such as Web servers, FTP servers or Mail servers on your network, in spite of NAT.

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