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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="glossentry-nat">
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| 4 | <title>NAT</title>
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| 5 | <body>
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| 6 | <section>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | Network Address Translation. A technique to share networking interfaces
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| 9 | by which an interface modifies the source and/or target IP addresses of
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| 10 | network packets according to specific rules. Commonly employed by routers
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| 11 | and firewalls to shield an internal network from the Internet,
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| 12 | Oracle VM VirtualBox can use NAT to easily share a host's physical
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| 13 | networking hardware with its virtual machines.
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| 14 | See <xref href="network_nat.dita"/>.
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| 15 | </p>
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| 16 | </section>
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| 17 | </body>
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| 18 | </topic>
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