address translation

Where Is The Address Translation?

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Where Is The Address Translation? NAT operates on a router, usually connecting two networks together, and translates the private (not globally unique) addresses in the internal network into legal addresses, before packets are forwarded to another network. Should you translate street addresses? As a general rule, street names should not be translated. This is especially

Why Do We Translate A Virtual Address To Physical Address?

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Why Do We Translate A Virtual Address To Physical Address? In essence, the TLB stores recent memory translations of virtual to physical. It is a cache for page tables. Because it is part of the MMU, the TLB lives inside the CPU package. This is why the TLB is faster than main memory, which is