NAT stand for Network Address Translations. It is a way to map multiple local private addresses to a public one before transferring the information. Organizations that want multiple devices to employ a single IP address use NAT, as do most home routers.
Let’s say that there is a laptop connected to a home router. Someone uses the laptop to search for directions to their favorite restaurant. The laptop sends this request in a packet to the router, which passes it along to the web. But first, the router changes the outgoing IP address from a private local address to a public address.If the packet keeps a private address, the receiving server won’t know where to send the information back to — this is akin to sending physical mail and requesting return service but providing a return address of anonymous. By using NAT, the information will make it back to the laptop using the router’s public address, not the laptop’s private one.
