Router – How Can a Router Change the IP Address

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I would like to ask something. Probably, that was a simple thing but I'm new at network business so thanks for your kindness. In the topology image given below, the router "Router1" has an input address 10.2.2.1 and its neighbor is the switch with 192.168.2.1. Can someone explain how the router can change the address like that? I'm familiar with VLSM but no expert.
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Your picture can't be viewed but if you have both networks directly connected to your router that networks are tipically used to explain Network Address Translation (NAT) Protocol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation

That is not NAT, is just a normal router connection. The goal of a router is interconnecting networks. The router you comment, for example, have this configuration:

Interface            IP
Serial0/0/0          10.2.2.1
FastEthe0/0          192.168.2.1

And it knows that each network is on that interfaces. But how can reach PC1 to PC0? Because there are static or dynamic routing: Router 1 have a sentence like that.

192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 10.2.2.2

That means:

The whole network 192.168.1.0/24 can be reached with next hop 10.2.2.2 (The other side of your Serial Interface).

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