Describe how a NAT (Network Address Translator) works. Be sure to include an example showing the translation. Solution Hi there well here is how the NAT works. Network Address Translation (NAT) is mainly designed for conserving IP addresses. It enables private IP networks that use unregistered IP addresses to connect to the Internet. NAT operates on a router, which involves connection of two networks together, and translates the private addresses in the internal network into legal addresses, before the data packets are being forwarded to another network. NAT allows a single device, such as a router, to act as an agent between the Internet (or public network) and a local network (or private network), which means that only a single unique IP address is required to represent an entire group of computers to anything outside their network. NAT also maintains concurrent sessions. Working of a NAT: Earlier the computers and servers which are interacting with each other within a network need a unique identification like they should have a unique address to recognize each other.For this combinations of 32bit numbers like IPv4 came into existence.But due to the faster growth and demand of internet this was not suffiecient enough so to resolve this problem NAT came into light. It enabled two types of network IP addresses like private and public. A range of private addresses were introduced, which anyone could use, as long as these were kept private within the network and not routed on the internet. The range of private addresses known as RFC 1918 are; Class A 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 Class B 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 Class C 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 NAT allows you to use these private IP address on the internal network. However when internal hosts do need to communicate to the public network (Internet) then this is where a public address comes into the equation. Example of NAT: For this we have to follow some policies: Determine which IP addresses will be used for translation. Set up the necessary proxy ARPs. Set up the necessary static host routes. Create the necessary network objects. Make the necessary modifications to anti-spoofing. Create the necessary rulebase rules to permit the desired traffic. Create the NAT rules. Install the security policy, and verify that everything works as planned..