Howdy, I have never seen PAT described in an RFC to date. Could someone point me in the right direction with this outside of a Cisco website? Or is this really a "standardized" acronym?
Ray -----Original Message----- From: Paul Leroy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:56 AM To: 'Reaves, Timothy CECOM RDEC STCD JANUS'; SecurityBasics Subject: RE: NAT/PAT (Hide NAT) Vulnerabilities? Hi, PAT is Port Address Translation, it is also called NAT overload. Instead of mapping internal IPs to external IPs, it maps internal IPs to external source ports. This means that only one IP (that of the outside interface of the PAT device) is seen by the outside world. This also increases the number of concurrent connections to roughly 64000 instead of just the size of the outside IP pool. Hope that helps Regards, Paul Leroy -----Original Message----- From: Reaves, Timothy CECOM RDEC STCD JANUS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 December 2001 08:26 To: SecurityBasics Subject: RE: NAT/PAT (Hide NAT) Vulnerabilities? could someone please explain PAT? Thanks "This e-mail may contain confidential information and may be legally privileged and is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that you may not use, distribute or copy this document in any manner whatsoever. Kindly also notify the sender immediately by telephone, and delete the e-mail. When addressed to clients of the company from where this e-mail originates ("the sending company ") any opinion or advice contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable terms of business or client engagement letter . The sending company does not accept liability for any damage, loss or expense arising from this e-mail and/or from the accessing of any files attached to this e-mail."
