Talk:Communication Networks/NAT and PAT Protocols

This is wrong, PAT, NAPT or Port NAT is what commonly is known as just "NAT" and what's used (as described above). The real definition of NAT (basic NAT or one-to-one NAT) is quite different from Port NAT. With basic NAT there's a pool of public addresses that interior hosts "borrows" and allows direct contact to Internet during that time. The main error here is confusing NAT and Port NAT when it's actually the same thing described. Forwarding ports have little to do with PAT..


 * After a cursory review I haven't found an issue. Are you sure you are not confusing the explanation of the process of NAT that indeed uses a port (NAT communications still need to originate on a specific port, OUT) and the faculty of PAT that permits outside request to a specific port to be redirected (IN) ? --Panic (discuss • contribs) 13:49, 1 April 2013 (UTC)