Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch manual Using Profile ACLs with Dynamic NAT

Chapter 17: Access Control List Configuration Guide

See “Limiting Traffic Rate” on page 291 for more information on using the rate-limitcommand.

Using Profile ACLs with Dynamic NAT

Network Address Translation (NAT) allows you to map an IP address used within one network to a different IP address used within another network. NAT is often used to map addresses used in a private, local intranet to one or more addresses used in the public, global Internet.

The SSR supports two kinds of NAT: static NAT and dynamic NAT. With dynamic NAT, an IP address within a range of local IP addresses is mapped to an IP address within a range of global IP addresses. For example, you can configure IP addresses on network 10.1.1.0/24 to use an IP address in the range of IP addresses in network 192.50.20.0/24. You can use a Profile ACL to define the ranges of local IP addresses.

The following command creates a Profile ACL called local. The local profile specifies as its selection criteria the range of IP addresses in network 10.1.1.0/24..

ssr(config)# acl local permit ip 10.1.1.0/24

Note: When a Profile ACL is defined for dynamic NAT, only the source IP address field in the acl statement is evaluated. All other fields in the acl statement are ignored.

Once you have defined a Profile ACL, you can then use the nat create dynamic command to bind the range of IP addresses defined in the local profile to a range in network 192.50.20.0/24.

ssr(config)# nat create dynamic local-acl-pool local global-pool 192.50.20.10/24

See “Network Address Translation Configuration Guide” on page 223 for more information on using dynamic NAT.

Using Profile ACLs with the Port Mirroring Facility

Port mirroring refers to the SSR’s ability to copy traffic on one or more ports to a “mirror” port, where an external analyzer or probe can be attached. In addition to mirroring traffic on one or more ports, the SSR can mirror traffic that matches selection criteria defined in a Profile ACL.

For example, you can mirror all IGMP traffic on the SSR. You use a Profile ACL to define the selection criteria (in this example, all IGMP traffic). Then you use a port mirroring command to copy packets that match the selection criteria to a specified mirror port. The following commands illustrate this example.

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