Chapter 11 Network Address Translation (NAT)

Note: Only one LAN computer can use a trigger port (range) at a time.

Figure 118 Network > NAT > Advanced

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 60 Network > NAT > Advanced

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Max NAT/

Type a number ranging from 1 to 16000 to limit the number of NAT/

Firewall Session

firewall sessions that a host can create.

Per User

When computers use peer to peer applications, such as file

 

 

sharing applications, they may use a large number of NAT

 

sessions. If you do not limit the number of NAT sessions a single client

 

can establish, this can result in all of the available NAT sessions being

 

used. In this case, no additional NAT sessions can be established, and

 

users may not be able to access the Internet.

 

Each NAT session establishes a corresponding firewall session. Use this

 

field to limit the number of NAT/firewall sessions each client computer

 

can establish through the NBG-460N.

If your network has a small number of clients using peer to peer applications, you can raise this number to ensure that their performance is not degraded by the number of NAT sessions they can establish. If your network has a large number of users using peer to peer applications, you can lower this number to ensure no single client is using all of the available NAT sessions.

Port Triggering Rules

#

This is the rule index number (read-only).

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