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Chapter 10 Network Address Translation (NAT) 10.6.3 How NAT Works Each packet has two addresses - a source address and a destination address. For outgoing packets, the inside local address is the source address on the LAN, and the inside public address is the source address on the WAN. For incoming packets, the inside local address is the destination address on the LAN, and the inside public address is the destination address on the WAN. NAT maps private (local) IP addresses to globally unique ones required for communication with hosts on other networks. It replaces the original IP source address (and TCP or UDP source port numbers for Many-to-One and Many-to-Many Overload NAT mapping) in each packet and then forwards it to the Internet. The P-660RU-Tx keeps track of the original addresses and port numbers so incoming reply packets can have their original values restored. The following figure illustrates this. Figure 39 How NAT Works LAN 192.168.1.13 192.168.1.12 SA 192.168.1.10 NAT Table Inside Local IP Address 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.11 192.168.1.12 192.168.1.13 Inside Public IP Address 1 2 3 4 SA 1 WAN Inside Local Address 192.168.1.11 192.168.1.10 Inside Public Address P-660RU-Tx User's Guide 99