Frodo
join:2006-05-05
Lees Summit, MO
| reply to man00
Re: when did AT&T start playing around with torrent transfers
If your PC is drawing a private IP address, such as the 192.168.1.64 that my 4100 hands out, then the connections coming in the modem needs to be converted from the external "public" ip address to the "private" ip address. A modem can only handle a finite amount of these connections. I have a $5 router that can't handle more than 50 connections. Anyway, my 4100 has the option of placing the public IP address on the computer. If that option is available on the 5100, then *maybe* the nat engine need not be used, since no IP address conversion is needed. Generally, the conversion is handled through a NAPT engine, that combines address translation and port translation. |
