Freescale Semiconductor TWR-MCF52259-Ethenet manual Nat

NAT

Network Address Translation (NAT, also known as network masquerading or IP-masquerading) involves re-writing the source and/or destination addresses of IP packets as they pass through a router or firewall.

Most systems using NAT do so in order to enable multiple hosts on a private network to access the Internet using a single public IP address.

NAT is a non-standard protocol

Local Global

192.168.1.1	192.168.1.0
192.168.1.2		Router/Gateway
		running NAT
192.168.1.3		IP=10.1.2.3
192.168.1.4

10.1.2.3

internet

Default Gateway is where packets

192.168.1.5addressed outside the subnet are sent to.

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