[sebastan_bach]

hi mate thanks a lot for ur replies. yeah my scenario was for connections going from the external to internal so no explicit rules required for return traffic from internal to external. my setup is working as required now.

but now i also want to the internal host to send traffic to the intranet and the internet as well.

now since i am using auto static nat whenever the internal host is sending traffic to the external network where both the intranet and internet are present the host is always translated to the static ip specified.

is there a way that i can configure that when my internal host sends traffic to the intranet it should always look like ext_ip1 and when it sends traffic to the internet it should always look like ext_ip2.

is this possible with manual static nat.

what i am trying to achieve here is that when intranet is accessing the internal host on ext_ip1 so when internal host sends traffic to the intranet it should be translated to the same ext_ip1 .

similarly when internet users access the internal host on ext_ip2 similarly when internal host sends traffic on the internet it should always be natted to ext_ip2.

this is generally what happens in cisco and netscreen.

since the static configuration is cisco in symmetric we do not need 4 rules like we needed out here in checkpoint.

guys is the above requirement possible using manual static nat.

waiting for ur reply buddies.

thanks a lot.

regards

sebastan