When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors Before the potential of the internet was ...

THE FAST-GROWING use of the Internet led to a shortage of IP addresses. To deal with this problem, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) defined NAT (Network Address Translation), which is a way ...

IPv6 promises to fix that by giving every device its own globally unique address, removing the need for NAT and simplifying ...

Fellow blogger PhoneBoy offers a detailed but quite comprehensible explanation of why the decidely improved NAT (Network Address Translation) capability of Internet calling proivder SightSpeed's ...

Interesting set of findings from an Interop Labs' test of VoIP gear run on the Interop Las Vegas show's earlier this month. Network Address Translation, or NAT, for short, (as shown on th Cisco site, ...

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there’s no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will ...

Some devices even use things like STUN servers to determine their NAT situation and public IPs. 2 layers of NAT is usually a death knell for SIP, especially if you have 2 consumer level NAT devices ...

Web browser vendors are planning to block a new attack technique that would allow attackers to bypass a victim's NAT, firewall, or router to gain access to any TCP/UDP service hosted on their devices.

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