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Prestige 314 PLUS Broadband Sharing Gateway with 4-Port Switch 
4-2 
NAT 
NAT never changes the IP address (either local or global) of an outside host. 
4.1.2  What NAT Does 
In the simplest form, NAT changes the source IP address in a packet received from a subscriber (the inside 
local address) to another (the inside global address) before forwarding the packet to the WAN side. When the 
response comes back, NAT translates the destination address (the inside global address) back the inside local 
address before forwarding it to the original inside host. Note that the IP address (either local or global) of an 
outside host is never changed. 
The global IP addresses for the inside hosts can be either static or dynamically assigned by the ISP. In 
addition, you can designate servers, e.g., a web server and a telnet server, on your local network and make 
them accessible to the outside world. If you do not define any servers (for Many-to-One and Many-to-Many 
Overload mapping – see Table 4-2), NAT offers the additional benefit of firewall protection. If no server is 
defined in these cases, all incoming inquiries will be filtered out by your Prestige, thus preventing intruders 
from probing your network. For more information on IP address translation, refer to RFC 1631The IP 
Network Address Translator (NAT). 
4.1.3  How NAT Works 
Each packet has two addresses – a source address and a destination address. For outgoing packets, the ILA 
(Inside Local Address) is the source address on the LAN, and the IGA (Inside Global Address) is the source 
address on the WAN. For incoming packets, the ILA is the destination address on the LAN, and the IGA 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 Prestige keeps track of the original addresses and port numbers so incoming 
reply packets can have their original values restored. The following figure illustrates this.