It’s time to configure dynamic NAT where we use a pool of IP addresses for translation. I’ll use a fairly simple topology with two hosts and 1 router that will perform NAT:
This time we have 2 host routers on the left side and I’m using another subnet. Let’s prepare the host routers:
Host1(config)#no ip routing
Host1(config)#default gateway 192.168.123.3Host2(config)#no ip routing
Host2(config)#ip default-gateway 192.168.123.3Next step is to configure NAT:
NAT(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
NAT(config-if)#ip nat inside NAT(config)#interface fastEthernet 1/0
NAT(config-if)#ip nat outsideFirst we’ll configure the correct inside and outside interfaces. Now I will create a pool with IP addresses that we can use for the translation:
NAT(config)#ip nat pool MYPOOL 192.168.23.10 192.168.23.20 prefix-length 24The ip nat pool command lets us create a pool. I’m calling mine “MYPOOL” and I’m using IP address 192.168.23.10 up to 192.168.23.20. We can now select the hosts that we want to translate:
Hello Sumit
This is a very good question because the terms used with NAT can become very confusing. Let’s say you are the Inside Host and you are connecting to a web server which is the Outside Host like so:
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You can see that the packet leaving the inside host and travelling towards the NAT router has:
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Source Address: Inside Local - a private address such as 10.10.10.5
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Destination address: Outside Local - the public IP address of the outside host such as 2
... Continue reading in our forumHello Maodo
Don’t worry, you are reading up on CCNA material. Rene is referring to the fact that the Outside Local and the Outside Global addresses are the same. These however can be configured so that they are different. That is, the destination IP address can also be translated by NAT. It is this configuration alone that is outside of the CCNA curriculum. Not to worry, the rest is definitely covered within the CCNA curriculum.
I hope this has been helpful!
Laz
Thanks for your explanation, Lazaros.
My question was no so technical. A CCNP lesson telling about CCNA scope ; I thought, it’s Copy/Paste error. Now, I understand that one lesson can belong to CCNA and also be re-used, without any change, in CCNP or CCIE courses. I found below the three (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE) links having the same NAT lesson (the lesson that was originally written for CCNA).
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... Continue reading in our forum…/ccnp-route/how-to-configure-dynamic-nat-on-cisco-ios-router/
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Hello Sumit
There are two types of translation entries: Simple and Extended. A simple translation entry maps one IP address to another. The keyword
... Continue reading in our forumextendablewhich indicates an extended translation entry indicates that the translation entry will map an IP address and port pair to another. The extended translation includes the port. An example of such a configuration is the following:Hi Laz,
Thank you for the reply. I tried it again, reconfigured from scratch, now it worked. Strange… maybe I did something wrong the first time.
Thank you,
Vlad