Network Address Translation Overview

NAT is a mechanism for concealing a set of host addresses on a private network behind a pool of public addresses. It can be used as a security measure to protect the host addresses from direct targeting in network attacks.

You can configure NAT using traditional NAT or twice NAT, as described in the following sections:

• Traditional NAT
• Twice NAT

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