What is NAT?

NAT stands for Network Address Translation. Load Balancers use NAT to forward traffic to one the servers in the server pool.

Let’s take an example where a client is talking to a Load Balancer with the following IP addresses.

• IP address of the Client is 96.76.36.146.

• IP address of the Server (Load Balance) is 66.102.1.1.

• Load Balancer is backed by four servers having IP addresses from 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.4 ...