The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)
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NAT is a prevalent technique used in network gateways to modify IP address information, primarily to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion.
“Network Address Translation (NAT) is a prevalent technique used in network gateways to modify IP address information; primarily, to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion [9].”
From Large-Scale Measurement of NAT Traversal for the Decentralized Web: A Case Study of DCUtR in IPFS (2026) · cites this paper as [9]
The Overview of NAT describes NAT as a router function installed at a stub domain’s exit point, and §3.3 says it modifies IP addresses. The Introduction identifies IP address depletion as a motivation. But the Conclusions (p. 8) call NAT a possible short-term solution whose suitability still required experimentation; the paper does not establish that NAT was prevalent. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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Large-Scale Measurement of NAT Traversal for the Decentralized Web: A Case Study of DCUtR in IPFS
Trautwein, D., Ihle, C., Schubotz, M., Breitinger, C., & Gipp, B. (2026) · Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Internet Measurement Conference · doi:10.1145/3777912.3809138
- Authors
- Egevang, K., & Francis, P.
- ORCID
- Francis, P.
- Publisher
- RFC Editor
- Published
- 1994-05
- OpenAlex
- W1709767083
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- 552
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- Type
- report
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Traffic and Congestion Control
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Technology and Education Systems
- Keywords
- network address translation, NAT, Internet Protocol, address translation
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