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Network Address Translation

By on Saturday, December 14, 2019

Network Address Translation or NAT is a brilliant scheme to preserve IP addresses. Organizations are often assigned a limited number of public IP addresses. It would be extremely expensive to convert all private IP addresses to public addresses for outside communication. NAT offers a brilliant solution to this problem. NAT allows 3 different ways of mapping internal IP addresses to public IP addresses.

Before we dive into the different types of NATs lets first clarify the terminologies that are often confusing.

The IP address of the private network host is called inside local and once that private IP address is mapped to a public IP address it becomes inside global. For e.g in the above fig we can see that the IP address of the inside host changes for 10.10.10.1 to 72.16.92.10. The IP address 10.10.10.1 is refereed as Inside Local and the IP address after mapping 72.16.92.10 is refereed as Inside Global

And similarly, a public IP address is called outside global and when it is mapped to a private IP address it is called outside local. For e.g in the above fig we can see that the IP address of the Public host changes for 72.16.92.9 to 10.10.10.10. The IP address 72.16.92.9 is refereed as Outside Global and the IP address after mapping 10.10.10.10 is refereed as Outside Local

Now, the 3 types of NATs are

  • Static NAT
  • Dynamic NAT
  • Port Address Translation

The following lab is an example of all three nats

 Router#sh run
 Building configuration…
 Current configuration : 3655 bytes
 !
 ! Last configuration change at 20:23:44 UTC Mon Dec 16 2019
 !
 version 15.6
 service timestamps debug datetime msec
 service timestamps log datetime msec
 no service password-encryption
 !
 hostname Router
 !
 boot-start-marker
 boot-end-marker
 !
 no aaa new-model
 ethernet lmi ce
 !
 no process cpu autoprofile hog
 mmi polling-interval 60
 no mmi auto-configure
 no mmi pvc
 mmi snmp-timeout 180
 !
 ip icmp rate-limit unreachable
 !
 no ip domain lookup
 ip cef
 no ipv6 cef
 !
 multilink bundle-name authenticated
 !
 redundancy
 !
 no cdp log mismatch duplex
 no cdp run
 !
 ip tcp synwait-time 5
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/0
  ip address 172.16.0.1 255.255.255.0
  ip nat outside
  ip virtual-reassembly in
  duplex auto
  speed auto
  media-type rj45
  no cdp enable
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1
  description Static NAT
  ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.252
  ip nat inside
  ip virtual-reassembly in
  duplex auto
  speed auto
  media-type rj45
  no cdp enable
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/2
  description Dynamic NAT
  ip address 10.20.20.1 255.255.255.252
  duplex auto
  speed auto
  media-type rj45
  no cdp enable
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/3
  description PAT
  ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
  duplex auto
  speed auto
  media-type rj45
  no cdp enable
 !
 ip forward-protocol nd
 !
 !
 no ip http server
 no ip http secure-server
 ip nat pool dynamicNAT 172.16.0.30 172.16.0.40 netmask 255.255.255.0
 ip nat inside source list 7 pool dynamicNAT
 !to perform PAT we would do  ip nat inside source list 7 pool dynamicNAT overload
 ip nat inside source static 10.10.10.2 172.16.0.2
 !
 !
 !
 access-list 7 permit 10.20.20.0 0.0.0.255
 end
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