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Question: Is It Natted or Is It NAT’D ?

1st October 2008 By 11 Comments

When writing documentation I refer to network address translation as NAT. When a packet or flow undergoes the NAT process, is it Natted or NAT’d ?

I prefer to use NAT’d as this suits my thinking but I would lile to ask you what you would choose before I add it to the Network Dictionary.

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  • http://aconaway.com Aaron Conaway

    I always NAT an unNATted IP to a NATted one. The act of NATting is creates a state of NATification.

  • steve_mils

    NAT’d

  • http://ertw.com/blog/ Sean

    This came up between me and my copy editor when I wrote a book a couple of years ago. Neither of us could find anything, so we just made sure everything was consistent.

    FWIW, I went with NATted.

    Sean

  • Tim

    Well, we wouldn’t want it to be NATTY.

  • Dan

    Wouldn’t you use the same suffix as the last word in NAT, Translate. That would give the addition of the letter “d”. So I would go for NAT’d,

  • ccielab

    I go for NATed

  • Mike

    Has to be NAT’d for same reasons as Dan.

  • http://bitacora.nevot.org nevot

    NATted, to be kind with Web Searching Engines. Better the ‘natted’ term to be searched on the web.

  • Nickelby Thane

    I would go with NATed. Sounds more English-like plus it’s easier to type and remember :-)

  • FoosYou

    NAT’d

  • David Smith

    I use the English, translated.