NAT Outside

From: gladston@br.ibm.com
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 14:47:15 GMT-3


There is this example at Cisco Lab Press book:

int fa 0/0
 ip ad 172.16.0.1
 ip nat outside
!
ip nat outside source static udp 172.16.0.2 520 224.0.0.9 520
!
end

The goal is to unicast RIP packets instead of broadcast it to the multicast address 224.0.09. I implemented it and it works really nice.
What I would appreciate is any tip about the interpretation of a "nat outside" statement when reading it.

At the first glance I would say that this example would translate source address whit IP 172.16.0.2 to 224.0.0.9 when the packet goes from outside to inside; ok, it would really does it if there was a response for RIP updates, which is not the case.

Is there a logical way to think about it? or just memorize?



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