Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Exploring IPsec NAT Traversal
As previously mentioned, IPSec in Windows Server 2012 supports the concept of Network Address Translation Traversal (NAT-T). Understanding how NAT-T works first requires a full understanding of the need for NAT itself.
Network Address Translation was developed simply because not enough IP addresses were available for all the clients on the Internet. Because of this, private IP ranges were established (10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x, and 172.16-31.x.x) to allow all clients in an organization to have a unique IP address in their own private space. These IP addresses were designed to not route through the public IP address space, and a mechanism was needed to translate them into a valid, unique public IP address.
NAT was developed ...
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