Here are a couple that I found: http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/firewall/net_add2.htm http://www.enterasys.com/products/whitepapers/ssr/network-trans/ http://www.docs.uu.se/~tschudin/lect/20002001/dn2/slides/nat-4up.pdf
HTH Nick On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 01:34, Pete Procenko wrote: > I think, the sinonim would be MASQERADING (from linux world) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "SecurityBasics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 5:23 AM > Subject: RE: NAT/PAT (Hide NAT) Vulnerabilities? > > > > 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." > > > > -- Nick Network Security Consultant CISSP, CCSI, MCSE, CCNA Lucent Technologies/NPS Raleigh, NC _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
