Netopia R2020 manual User’s Reference Guide

10-2 User’s Reference Guide

The terms public and external refer to the Internet side of the Netopia Router's connection. A machine on the public network cannot necessarily access a machine behind a Netopia Router's NAT remapping, unless you specify that it can.

Multiple Network Address Translation (MultiNAT) introduces several new NAT-related features. These features can be divided into three categories that can be used simultaneously in different combinations on a per-Connection Profile basis.

A brief description follows:

■PAT stands for Port Address Translation (also known as NAPT for Network Address Port Translation). It allows an entire network or part of a network to be represented to the outside world as a single IP address. A limitation of PAT is that communication must be initiated from the internal network. A user on the external side can not access a machine behind a PAT connection. Now, with the Netopia R2020 Router, you can define multiple PAT remappings. Each of these can optionally alias a section or range of IP addresses of the internal network. PAT remapping allows only internal users to initiate traffic flow between the internal and external networks.

■Static remappings are a way to represent an internal single address or sequence of addresses as an external address or sequence of addresses on a one-to-one basis. As with PAT remappings, you can simultaneously use several static rules. Machines on the external network can initiate conversations with statically remapped internal computers by accessing the aliased values. It is important to note that in most uses of static remappings a static route on the external router must be created to tell the external network to go through the NAT Netopia Router to get to the remapped external addresses. Static remapping allows an entire machine to be available to the external net. Either the internal NATed machine or the external network can initiate traffic flow to or from the remapped machine.

■Server Lists are also known as exported services. By creating a server list, you can tell the outside world that specific services such as Web, ftp, e-mail, etc. can be accessed at specific external addresses. Server lists differ from static remappings in that the specified service is only available to external users at the stated alias address. In most uses of server lists you must create a static route on the external router to tell the external network to go through the NAT Netopia Router to get to the remapped address of the server lists. Exported servers and Server Lists allow only specific IP services (IP ports) to be available to the outside world. Services from different internal machines can be presented as a single external IP address.

Map Lists and Server Lists are completely independent of each other. A Connection Profile can use one or the other or both.

MultiNAT allows complex mapping and requires some complex configuration. Multiple mapped interior subnets are supported, and the rules for mapping each of the subnets may be different. The figure below illustrates a possible multiNAT configuration.