IP Services - Network Address Translation

11 important questions on IP Services - Network Address Translation

What are 4 important NAT terms used often by Cisco and within the Cisco routers?

1. Inside Local: Actual private IP of a host inside the network.

2. Inside Global: Public IP address representing one or more Inside Local IP addresses

3. Outside Local: The IP address of an outside host as it appears to the inside network

4. Outside Global: The actual IP address of the outside host.

What are three commonly used types of NAT?

1. Static NAT: Static 1 to 1 mapping of a local IP to a Global IP

2. Pooled NAT: Provides dynamic mapping of a local IP address to a Global IP address. After some idle time the Global IP is released back to the pool.

3. Port Address Translation (PAT): Provides a dynamic many local addresses to one global ip address mapping. This is done by mapping the local IP and source port to a unique combination of Global IP and source port so it knows where to send the return traffic.

What are the 3 steps to define Inside/source NAT?

1. Define outside interface with command ip nat outside
2. Define inside interface with command ip nat inside
3. Define NAT rule with command ip nat inside source static inside-local-ip inside-global-ip
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How many sessions does a Static NAT Entry create in the NAT Translation Table?

1 for the static NAT entry and 1 for each session.

In Pooled NAT, how do you specify the inside local (Source) ip address range?

This is done by specifying an ACL. The ACL is then used in the IP NAT inside source list acl-name pool nat-pool-name command

In Pooled NAT, how do you specify the inside global (NATted Source) ip address range?

This is done by specifying a NAT Pool, with the IP NAT POOL command. The NAT Pool is then used in the IP NAT inside source list acl-name pool nat-pool-name command

How many sessions does a Pooled NAT create in the NAT Translation Table?

For each session it will allocate an Inside Global ip address for each Inside Local address on a one to one basis.
If a data session is started a static session entry is created as well as a session entry per data session for that IP.

What happens when all the Inside Global addresses have been allocated to Inside Local addresses and a new Inside Local address tries to setup a session.

The traffic is dropped because there are no Inside Global addresses available to be allocated.

For how long are Inside Global addresses allocated to Inside Local addresses?

The default timeout period is 24 hours, when there is no traffic.

Port Address Translation creates the possibilty to map multiple Local IP addresses to one Global IP address by dynamically changing the source port. What is a different name for PAT?

NAT Overload

What are the different command for Static NAT, Pooled NAT and PAT (NAT Overload)

1. Ip nat inside source static {inside-local-ip} {inside-global-ip}

2. Ip nat inside source list {acl-name} pool {pool-name}

3. Ip nat inside source list [interface {intf-id} | Pool {pool-name} overload

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