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NAT TRAVERSAL THROUGH TUNNELING

Madhavan, 2010

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Madhavan A
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ABSTRACT Network Address Translation (NAT) is widely prevalent solution adopted to alleviate the IPv4 address exhaustion problem. Due to the use of private IP addresses on hosts behind the NAT, it is not possible for external hosts to initiate communication with …
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