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Network Address Translation (NAT)
10.1  Overview 
NAT (Network Address Translation - NAT, RFC 1631) is the translation of the IP address of a host in 
a packet, for example, the source address of an outgoing packet, used within one network to a 
different IP address known within another network.
10.1.1  What You Can Do in this Chapter
• Use  the  Port Forwarding screen to configure forward incoming service requests to the server(s) 
on your local network (
).
• Use  the  Sessions screen to limit the number of concurrent NAT sessions each client can use 
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10.1.2  What You Need To Know
The following terms and concepts may help as you read this chapter.
Inside/Outside and Global/Local
Inside/outside denotes where a host is located relative to the Device, for example, the computers 
of your subscribers are the inside hosts, while the web servers on the Internet are the outside 
hosts. 
Global/local denotes the IP address of a host in a packet as the packet traverses a router, for 
example, the local address refers to the IP address of a host when the packet is in the local 
network, while the global address refers to the IP address of the host when the same packet is 
traveling in the WAN side. 
NAT
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 to the inside local address before forwarding it to the original inside host.
Port Forwarding
A port forwarding set is a list of inside (behind NAT on the LAN) servers, for example, web or FTP, 
that you can make visible to the outside world even though NAT makes your whole inside network 
appear as a single computer to the outside world.