My good friend and fellow blogging partner Mike Svoboda told me about dd-wrt a few weeks ago. Once Mike showed me what dd-wrt was capable of, I knew I needed to deploy it somewhere. I didn’t have a spare access point or router to test dd-wrt, so I decided to pick up a WRT54GL on [...]
Network Address translation (NAT) has become an essential part of the Internet, and is one of the reasons we still have IPv4 address space available. All NAT devices are not created equal though, and several NAT variations are prevalent (per RFC 3489):
Full Cone: A full cone NAT is one where all requests from the
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