Describe how PAT works, explaining how this protects the computers on a private LAN.

What will be an ideal response?


In most uses of PAT, a single public IP address is shared by a number of computers that share a private network ID. Overloaded NAT replaces the outgoing packet's source IP address with the NAT router's external interface address, and adds the destination IP address and the source ephemeral port to the NAT translation table. When the receiving system returns a packet, the overloaded NAT router reverses the IP addresses and ports and checks the NAT translation table to determine which local IP address to use for sending the packet to the correct computer.

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