Osoitteenkäännökset
Osoitteenkäännökset, commonly known in English as Address Translation, is a fundamental process in computer networking that allows devices to communicate with each other using different addressing schemes. The most prominent example is the translation between Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. Every device connected to a network has both an IP address, which is a logical identifier used for routing data across networks, and a MAC address, which is a unique physical hardware identifier assigned to network interface controllers.
When a device needs to send data to another device on the same local network, it uses
In a broader context, osoitteenkäännökset also encompasses Network Address Translation (NAT). NAT is used to map