Edward -
Certainly! This is, by the way, the whole point of Dynamic NAT (or
masquerading). Some implementations will change the sequence numbers,
or the source ports to force them to be unique. Others just trust
that source ports are generally random enough (combined with dst IP
and dst port) to tell the connections apart. By these methods, you
can have many clients (private/unregistered IPs) and only one or a few
public/registered IP addresses.
To learn a lot more about general NAT and some vendor specific
stuff, check out this web site:
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzdmacka/the-nat-page/
excellent and very thorough.
Valerie
> From: "Edward Ingram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: NAT pools
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:38:16 -0800
>
> What happens if the numbers of clients exceeds the number of IPs allocated
within a NAT pool? Will it reuse IPs already given out or will clients be
denied access. Does this depend on the firewall being used or is it a general
concept?
>
>
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