NAT order of operations, why different?

Hello,
Just trying to figure out why they would make the order of operations of NAT
different based on the direction where
In -> Out does routing looking before NAT translation lookup.
Out -> In does NAT translation lookup before routing looking.

Thank you in advance.

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Received on Tue Jan 04 2011 - 17:40:32 ART