What is Packet Mangling?
Packet mangling is best described as the intentional modification of the information in the internet protocol (IP) packet header before it enters routing. This intentional change is not malicious, but is a process commonly used by network administrators. When data is transmitted from one computer to another over the Internet, the information is sent in a data packet. The packet header contains the information about the sender and the receiver. It also contains information about the actual data being transmitted, which is called the payload. Packet mangling is done through the network address translation (NAT) process. This process is used while the packet is moving across the traffic router. Within the NAT, the translation tables can be set up to modify the source IP address and the destination IP address fields automatically. This process is also called IP masking or network masquerading, and is one of the most commonly used functions of packet mangling. The main table used in this pr
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