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Anyone have knowledge of DS-NAT config.. | by bbr | 2002-10-14 03:17:32 |
| Where are you trying to play the game from? |
by efti |
2002-10-14 03:50:45 |
NAT stands for Network Address Translation. It means that the source address of your PC is changed on all TCP/IP packets while they travel from your PC to the game server. NAT is commonly used on corporate networks and home networks as you don't have to have a separate internet-legal IP addresses (which cost money) for all of your computers, you can use private ip addresses (addresses begining with 192.168., 10. or 172.16-31.) instead.
In a typical setup there is one machine that does NAT, and all traffic goes through it. As packets with internal addresses pass through it, it will re-send them with it's own (internet-legal) address. When the replies come back, it will send them to the right machine on the internal network.
If you have a single PC connected directly to an internet connection then it's unlikely that you'd be behind a NAT router. If you are at work you are quite likely to be behind a NAT router. If you have a DSL router at home with multiple machines connected to it, then the DSL router might be doing NAT. If you use Windows's "Internet Connection Sharing" feature... well, Internet Connection Sharing *is* NAT, only M$ decided to call it differently...
Give us some info and someone might help you -- unfortunately for you I'm going to the pub right now, therefore I can't help you any further. |
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Right. ok. more info then. | by bbr | 2002-10-14 03:58:13 |
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Probably causes... | by LthrOttr | 2002-10-14 11:41:57 |
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