17.4. Network Address Translation

Network Address Translation (NAT) is common on many Internet connections in homes and offices. It means that the office uses private IP addresses (e.g. 192.168.1.1) and these are mapped (translated) to one external address.

NAT is known to cause a lot of problems with a wide variety of applications and protocols. One of those that suffers a lot from the problems of NAT is VoIP. There are, sometimes, ways of making this work, but it usually a compromise of some sort and prone to problems.

The FB2700 provides some key ways to tackle the issues of NAT.