Changing Destination Address in IP Packet

[raj7988 (Raj R)]

Hi Rene

As we can change the source IP address in the packet with the help of NAT. So same way can we change the destination address of an IP Packet on Cisco Router?

Please share all the possible way.

Regards
Raj

[lagapidis (Lazarus Agapidis)]

Hello Raj

Yes, there are situations where we would want NAT to translate the destination address. One such example can be found in this post I wrote several weeks ago:

Cisco ASA NAT Port Forwarding

Hello Bruce Although it is true that the vast majority of NAT configurations are indeed nat (inside,outside), there are situations where the nat(outside,inside) scenario is useful. One such example is if you have a web server that is on the Internet that you want users on the inside of a network to access using an internal private address. This example can be seen in the following Cisco documentation on pages 2 to 4 in a section titled “NAT for Inside Hosts (Dynamic NAT) and NAT for an Outsid…

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz