When designing products or protocols, there's often a trade-off to be made. Often, it's in favor of convenience instead of ...

Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

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 ...

Since almost all games nowadays are online, it is a sin not to think about optimizing the home network. Almost all routers have either or both NAT Boost and QoS features to aid the user’s game ...

6 Types of Network Address Translation: Which One to Use? Your email has been sent Even though we’re no longer running out of IP addresses, Network Address Translation still plays a vital role. Learn ...

Organizations today are too dependent on the Internet to experience any downtime when upgrading from IPv4 to IPv6. But help is on the way. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined ...