How did NAT help resolve the shortage of IPV4 addresses after the increase in SOHO, Small Office Home Office, sites requiring connections to the Internet?

Question Completion:

Choose the best answer below:

A. It provides a migration path to IPV6.

B. It permits routing the private IPV4 subnet 10.0.0.0 over the Internet.

C. NAT adds one more bit to the IP address, thus providing more IP addresses to use on the Internet.

D. It allowed SOHO sites to appear as a single IP address, (and single device), to the Internet even though there may be many devices that use IP addresses on the LAN at the SOHO site.

NAT helped resolve the shortage of IPV$ addresses after the increase in SOHO, Small Office Home Office sites requiring connections to the internet by:

D. It allowed SOHO sites to appear as a single IP address, (and single device), to the Internet even though there may be many devices that use IP addresses on the LAN at the SOHO site.

Explanation:

Network Address Translation (NAT) gives a router the ability to translate a public IP address to a private IP address and vice versa.  With the added security that it provides to the network, it keeps the private IP addresses hidden (private) from the outside world.  By so doing, NAT permits routers (single devices) to act as agents between the Internet (public networks) and local (private) networks.  With this facilitation, a single unique IP address is required to represent an entire group of computers to anything outside their networks.