Viewing NAT Global Settings and Statistics

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•They provide a measure of security for you LAN by enabling
you to assign private IP addresses and then have these and
the source port numbers swapped out before your computers
access the Internet.
The type of NAT function described above is called [Network
Address Port Translation (NAPT)]. You can use other types,
called flavors, of NAT for other purposes; for example,
providing outside access to your LAN or translating multiple
private addresses to multiple public addresses.
Viewing NAT Global Settings and Statistics
To view your NAT settings, log into the Configuration Manager,
click the [Services] tab. The [NAT Configuration] page appears
by default.
Figure 16. NAT Configuration Page