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nat
- May 1, 2026 Internet Gateway, NAT, and Source Address Translation How a VPC reaches the public internet without exposing private addresses, why a NAT gateway is one-way, and how the translation table interacts with connection tracking and path MTU discovery. cloud infrastructure
- Nov 19, 2024 NAT, Port Overloading, and the Address Exhaustion Boundary How one public address serves many private hosts through port translation, what the binding table must store, and which protocol assumptions a translator cannot preserve. computing history
- Dec 28, 2023 Moving Workloads with Overlapping Private Address Space Why two RFC 1918 networks that both use 10.0.0.0/8 cannot be joined by routing alone, how translation state makes the link fragile, and where addresses embedded in payloads defeat it. cloud infrastructure
- Jan 31, 2023 Connection Tracking Under NAT How address and port translation rewrites the five-tuple, why the mapping table is the real policy state, and which behaviours the NAT requirement documents leave to the implementation. security