Questions tagged [nat]
Network Address Translation, a technology used to translate a private IP address into a public IP.
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How to do networking between virtual machines in VirtualBox?
I have two virtual machines in VirtualBox. I would like to do networking between them. For the moment I have the default configuration on both, but they seem to have the same IP-address 10.0.2.15. I ...
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Is it possible to host a web server from behind a NAT
My PC is behind a NAT router that has a public IP address. If I want to host a website then I believe I need a domain name which I can purchase from some site which would pledge to resolve all DNS ...
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Set up a web server behind a Carrier Grade NAT
I was trying to set up a small home server.
I use dynamic IP adress. My router's wan adress is like this 100.70.81.xxx and my public ip is 81.213.177.xx
I made port forwarding in my router. www, ...
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How does the router know which device to send packets to? [duplicate]
my question does not concern how it moves through the internet, but how it moves through the router to a certain device. All devices connected to a router in a home network have the same external IP. ...
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Is my router's IP address really public?
I have a common home network consisting of a wireless router with many devices connected to it. I understand that because of NAT, all devices attached to the router connect to the outside of it via ...
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Connecting to my own network via external IP
Even though I have seen and read quite a few similar Q's I was still unable to understand what is required for me to be able to do this.
I have an internal network. One of the machines is a web ...
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SSH access to office host behind NAT router
I would like to access the ssh port of my office linux host from home. Unfortunately the host is located behind a NAT router. So, the IP address is not publicly available. There is however access to ...
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how to access samba on a guest Linux behind the VirtualBox NAT?
On my laptop, I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 under WinXP using VirtualBox 3.1.2.
I want a setup where:
The guest can freely access the internet.
The host can access the guest files via Samba.
The setup ...
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How is double NAT bad practically?
As the ISP-provided modem was generating pretty weak WiFi signal I've disabled its WiFi function, bought an Apple AirPort Extreme and connected it's WAN port to the modem. Now everything works just ...
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How can I make my home PC a web server?
I am running Apache Tomcat on my PC. My PC is connected to a router in my house and the router is connected to my ISP. Now I want to run a server on my PC so that my friend can view my site hosted on ...
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Accessing a website via the webservers public IP from a PC within the same LAN
If two machines reside on the same LAN (a PC and a Webserver) why is it necessary to enable ‘NAT loopback’ on the router in order for the PC to access the website hosted on the webserver using the ...
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How does a NAT server forward ping ICMP echo reply packets to users?
NAT uses an IP address port number combination to hash the outgoing requests. Since ping requests consist of ICMP echo request packets, they do not have any associated port number. How does a NAT ...
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Virtualbox -> Can't add 2nd adapter to network for VM
I have a Debian Wheezy VM running in virtual box with the 1st adapter being NAT. However I want to also add a Host-only network but I can't add 2nd adapter to network for VM, it is grayed out.
Any ...
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How to get my external IP address (over NAT) from the Windows command-line? [duplicate]
The Windows "ipconfig" command can only show me the parameters from the Ethernet interfaces from my machine (even with the ipconfig /all argument). It can show detailed information about the interface,...
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How does Http server distinguish between computers behind a router
HTTP servers usually operate at port 80. Yet NAT routers as most are these days assign port to outgoing requests so they would know when request is returned that which computer connected to it, it's ...
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