NAT Exempt rule

whiteford · ‎02-12-2009

Hi,

I just need someones advise on the adding a NAT exempt rle on my ASA 5520.

If I add an exempt from an IP to another IP it works, if I add a NAT exempt for a group name to a group range it won't work.

I am using the ASDM and I have created a group for a range of IP addresses and another group for some other IP ranges.

Are there any particular methods I should be following here? If I add all the exempt rules individually then they all work.

oabduo983 · ‎02-12-2009

In the IP to IP you use static, but for a network to network you can use static but you will have to hardcode the netmask to whatever the network is, for example:

static (inside,outside) 10.10.10.0 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

otherwise, if you do not specify the netmask it will take the default which is 255.255.255.255.

for a particular group of IP addresses, you may use policy natting or identity nat

Policy Nat:

access-list test permit ip 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 any

access-list test permit ip 10.20.20.0 255.255.255.0 any

access-list test permit ip 10.30.30.0 255.255.255.0 any

nat (inside) 0 access-list test

Identity NAT

nat (inside) 0 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0

nat (inside) 0 10.20.20.0 255.255.255.0

nat (inside) 0 10.30.30.0 255.255.255.0

this should work fine...

please vote for me if it is helpful!

sdoremus33 · ‎02-12-2009

tHANKS FOR THE VAL INFO. lATER

whiteford · ‎02-12-2009

Thanks, what is the NAT Exempt used for?

For example if I have 5 IP address of servers that I didn't want to get NAT'ed between an interface (DMZ) to a network range, how would I fo this?

Example

192.168.1.1/32

192.168.1.2/32

192.168.1.3/32

192.168.1.4/32

192.168.1.5/32

Not to get NAT'ed to

172.16.0.0/16 (DMZ interface)

sdoremus33 · ‎02-12-2009

There are a couple ways of performing this

Assuming the network range (inside)connections initiated to 172.06.0.0/16 network in the DMZ range

Nat exemption

access-list exemptrffc permit ip 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.248 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0

nat (inside)0 access-list exempttrffc

nat (inside) 1

global (outside) 1 interface

This will provide nat exemption for any traffic srced from 192.168.1/29 initiated to 172.16.0.0 /16

while all other inside traffic will be patted to the outside interface address

Nat exemptions are always performed first in the NAT order of operations

sdoremus33 · ‎02-12-2009

One last note: With NAT exemption you can initiate both inbound or outbound connections

whiteford · ‎02-13-2009

Thanks for your NAT Exempt example, how would I do this for say individual IP's only to the DMZ like:

192.168.1.10

192.168.1.150

192.168.1.225

Thanks