Kevin,

Could you please let us know how you could possibly do the conversion ?

cheers

arav

I'm not sure, but you could try something like this:

interface

 desc The one where you want the multicast

 ip nat inside

!

interface

 desc The one where you want the unicast.

! The unicast address should be on this subnet

 ip nat outside

!

ip nat inside source

Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg

Hi and thanks for your comments. I'll hopefully be able to test this soon and will confirm the results.

In the mean time if anyone can confirm whether it is possible and the best way of doing it I'd appreciate it.

OK, I labbed it up, and it works. There's a couple of things you need to add though.

I forgot a keyword in the ip nat command. It should be ip nat inside source static .

Put ip nat outside on the interface that you want to receive the unicast, and ip nat inside on the interface you want to transmit the multicast, as I said before.

But the biggest thing I had to add was multicast routing to enable the multicast to go out the inside interface. So:

ip multicast-routing

!

interface e0/0.20

 desc Interface that receives the unicast

 ip address 141.11.20.1 255.255.255.0

 ip nat outside

 ip pim dense-mode

!

interface e0/0.60

 desc Interface that transmits the multicast

 ip nat inside

 ip pim dense-mode

!

ip nat inside source static 239.42.42.42 141.11.20.11

If I send a ping to 141.11.20.11 on e0/0.20, I get a ping to 239.42.42.42 out of e0/0.60.

Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg

Hi Kevin

Thank you for the response. It's certainly useful to know that this works using NAT. I'll hopefully be testing it myself too in the near future.