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5.6 Custom NAT

5.6.1 Description

Custom NAT allow new rules to be added to the firewall to 
carry out Network Address Translation (NAT) that is differ-
ent to the usual NAT provided by the firewall. Packets can 
be matched based on which of the unit's network interfaces 
they arrive on or will leave on, the protocol, the source or 
destination address. The packets can have Source-NAT (SNAT) 
applied, where the source address is altered, or Destination-
NAT (DNAT) applied, where the destination address is 
altered. 

Some example custom NATs are:

Source-NAT on all packets being transmitted out a 

• 

VPN tunnel. 
Destination-NAT to redirect packets to a host on the 
LAN.

To access the Custom NAT configuration page, select the 
Firewall tab from the main menu, then the Custom NAT tab 
from the sub-menu. The page will list a table showing all 
current custom NATs. When first selected the table will be 
empty as shown in Figure 75.

Figure 75: Main custom NAT page, with no custom NAT entries in the table.

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