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C-4 User's Reference Guide
When the Netopia R5000 Series Router receives this IP packet from the WWW server, the Netopia R5000
Series Router replaces the destination IP address with 192.168.5.2, the address for Workstation A. The port is
changed back to 400, the IP packet checksum is recalculated, and the IP packet is sent to Workstation A on the
Netopia R5000 Series Router's LAN interface.
The reasons for the IP address changes are obvious from the preceding diagram, but what is not so obvious is
why the TCP or UDP source ports need to be changed as well. These are changed and maintained in an internal
table so the Netopia R5000 Series Router can determine which host on the local LAN interface sent the IP
packet and what host the response from the WAN interface is going to go to on the LAN interface. This
becomes especially important when two or more hosts on the LAN interface are accessing the same type of
service on the Internet, like a WWW server (port 80), for example.
Now look at how two hosts on the LAN interface accessing the same WWW server on the Internet will work:
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