11-14-2005 10:29 AM - edited 03-05-2019 11:41 AM
If I was to buy a normal broadband router at home, If I have say 3 pc's, can they all access the internet. I guess that these kind of routers use PAT which just automatically translates any lan ip to the wan ip and port, Am I correct in thinking this ?
thanks
Carl
11-14-2005 10:35 AM
Most of these routers can do PAT and static NAT if you wanted to host a web server, etc. on your LAN. You are correct when you say PAT would be used to translate your private IP addresses to a single public address.
Hope this helps.
Brandon
11-14-2005 12:35 PM
do most of them do it automatically, I mean the home branded style ones ?
11-14-2005 01:32 PM
Yes. The default is usually to DHCP the WAN address, hand out addresses throught DHCP on the LAN, and PAT the local addresses using the WAN address.
Brandon
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