Network equipment - Router A router is a device for connecting computer networks to one another, used for handling the routing of packets between two networks, or to determine the path that a data packet shall take. When a user enters a URL, the Web client (the browser)...en.kioskea.net/lan/routeurs.php3
Internet - Routing of IP packets Routers are devices which make it possible to "choose" the path that datagrams will take to arrive at the destination. They are machines with several network interface cards each one of which is linked to a different network. So, in the simplest...en.kioskea.net/internet/routage.php3
Security - Network address translation (NAT) Network address translation or NAT was developed in order to respond to the shortage of IP addresses with IPv4 protocol (in time the IPv6 protocol will respond to this problem). In fact, in IPv4 addressing the number of routable IP addresses (which...en.kioskea.net/internet/nat.php3