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As an MSP, our techs often have occasion to connect to some service at our customers over the internet that's limited only to our office's IP addresses. We recently changed internet connections at our offices and, along with that, our IP addresses. We ran our old and new internet connections side by side for a bit while we worked out any issues. This allowed us to implement an interesting use for NAT, or more appropriately, PAT (port address translation), combined with routing to give our techs time and the ability to access one such service and update the list of allowed IPs before removing our old internet connection.
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I work on a wide array of network-related (or network-connected) things for a lot of different types of customers. Our company has a number of medical practices as customers and I occasionally work with vendors on DICOM and HL7 issues. I normally don't do any of the actual work with those protocols; I am just responsible for the traffic getting where it needs to go. In this instance, though, the vendor wasn't helping and was pointing the finger at the network so I had to dig in.
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Welcome to my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine. This is more of an experiment at the moment. I've had blogs in the past, but never had really any kind of focused topic. I just posted about whatever came to mind at whatever interval. My intent with this one is different.
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