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  <glossterm>NAT</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
    Network Address Translation. A technique to share networking interfaces
    by which an interface modifies the source and/or target IP addresses of
    network packets according to specific rules. Commonly employed by routers
    and firewalls to shield an internal network from the Internet,
    <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can use NAT to easily share a host's physical
    networking hardware with its virtual machines.
    See <xref href="network_nat.dita"/>.
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>