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Old 2008-02-15
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Default Re: NAT preference

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Originally Posted by chrissamuel View Post
Automatic NAT rules take precedence as they appear at the start of the rulebase, not sure why you would want automatic and manual on the same object, you need to use manual really if you want to make use of bidirectional NAT.
That is not entirely true you can move the manual nat rules in front of the automatic rules. Use the add new rule on top and then move al the manual rules above the automatic rules. One of the reasons to use both is that you can use manual rules so that not al traffic will be translated.
With manual nat rules the order of the rules is important first matching rule will be applied for automatic nat rules the whole policy is used


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