Re: Ambiguous nat translations

From: balaji.balakrishnan (balaji.balakrishnan@swift.com)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 17:31:44 GMT-3


Hi Bob,

I think u did not catch the question well. I was trying to ask what nat entry will be used when the new session initiated from the
local address 192.168.1.1 to any global address outside the router.

Rgds,
Bala.

Bob Usa wrote:

> neither, the configuration says that incoming traffic that try to hit
> 202.1.1.1 will translate that traffic to 192.168.1.1 and traffic trying to
> hit address 198.1.2.1 will be translated to 192.168.1.1. This is true if
> the traffic is coming from the ip nat outside interface. Any traffic trying
> to hit either 202.1.1.1 or 192.168.1.1 coming from ip nat inside interface
> will terminate at the router or the device with those addresses.
>
> >From: "balaji.balakrishnan" <balaji.balakrishnan@swift.com>
> >Reply-To: "balaji.balakrishnan" <balaji.balakrishnan@swift.com>
> >To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >Subject: Ambiguous nat translations
> >Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:27:14 -0500
> >
> >Hi Group,
> >
> >I have a clarification on using "extendable" keyword with static nat
> >translation entries.
> >The "extendable" can be used to create ambiguous nat translations, where
> >single Global address can be used to map to two local IP
> >addresses. This may require in some applications like DNS where all the
> >customer DNS request on different Global addresses can be
> >mapped to single local. For example,
> >
> >ip nat inside source static 192.168.1.1 202.1.1.1 extendable
> >ip nat inside source static 192.168.1.1 198.1.2.1 extendable
> >
> >For any new outside to inside session, the router will track the session
> >by creating full translation table ( address/ports). But,
> >my question is that how router will behave when the traffic initiated from
> >the local side. In above example, what entry will be used
> >when the traffic initiated from 192.168.1.1 ??
> >
> >Rgds,
> >Bala.
>
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