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    Understanding Source NAT Pools with Address Shifting

    The match conditions for a source NAT rule set do not allow you to specify an address range; only address prefixes may be specified in a rule. When configuring a source NAT pool, you can specify the host-base-address option; this option specifies the IP address where the original source IP address range begins.

    The range of original source IP addresses that are translated is determined by the number of addresses in the source NAT pool. For example, if the source NAT pool contains a range of ten IP addresses, then up to ten original source IP addresses can be translated, starting with a specified base address. This type of translation is one-to-one, static, and without port address translation.

    The match condition in a source NAT rule may define a larger address range than that specified in the source NAT pool. For example, a match condition might specify an address prefix that contains 256 addresses, but the source NAT pool contains a range of only ten IP addresses. A packet’s source IP address can match a source NAT rule, but if the source IP address is not within the address range specified in the source NAT pool, the source IP address is not translated.

    Published: 2012-06-29