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depletion and scaling in routing. By 2004, NAT had become widespread.

The technique also became known as IP masquerading, which suggests a technique that hides an entire IP address space, usually consisting of private IP addresses, behind a single IP address in another, usually public address space. Because of the popularity of this technique to conserve IPv4 address space, the term NAT became virtually synonymous with IP masquerading.

In 1996, port-address translation (PAT) was introduced, which expanded the translation

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