Re: Nating a multicast packet

From: WorkerBee (ciscobee@gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 20:31:05 ART


This maybe useful for you.

Q. Does Multicast support Network Address Translation?

A. Cisco supports Source address translation with Multicast Network
Address Translation (NAT):

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/multicast_nat.html

On 5/23/06, Leigh Harrison <ccileigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Depending on what it is you're trying to do - ip multicast helper might
> be the answer you're after. It'll translate a multicast to a broadcast
> and then back again. I'm not too sure, but you could probably hit that
> against a loopback and do some trickery with directed broadcast. You
> may be able to nat that. I'm not 100% the natting part would worth, but
> it would be interesting...
>
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/123tcr/123tip3r/ip3_i1gt.htm#wp1075964
> http://tinyurl.com/mko8s
>
> Enjoy,
> LH
>
>
> netsat wrote:
> > Is it possible to Nat a multicast packet? I have had no success doing it and I cannot find anything on the Cisco site indicating tha it cannot be done. I am trying to use it to avoid a RPF problem.
> >
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