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jcgltoday at 8:36 AM1 replyview on HN

And that kind of NAT effectively doesn't exist in practice, so that's quite beside the point. Such a NAT doesn't scale to more than 24 devices behind it.


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aragilartoday at 9:13 AM

No, it very much does. If you want to join two network segments such that on one side all devices are on 10.1.X.X and the other all devices are 10.2.X.X, you'd use a mapping between 10.1.a.b and 10.2.a.b

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#Me...

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