July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
12h 59m
English
The demand for IPv4 addresses has grown over the years since the Internet has evolved. As the demand increased, the pool of available addresses has been depleted and there is a shortage of available IPv4 addresses. Two major attempts to deal with this situation have become popular over time - NAT and IPv6.
NAT has become a fairly popular way to take a small subset of public IP addresses and utilize them across a larger number of devices on a network. NAT took off in the 1990s as a way to mitigate the IP starvation problem until IPv6 took off, but now it's so popular that many people don't want to let go of it. Meanwhile, system administrators are forced to embrace the looming legacy of NAT and make sure ...
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