 Re: NAT Question....
PAT is just a term that is used. It really means that you are configuring an address to be NAT'd only on a certain port. For instance, you can say:
Original Packet Source: Any
Original Packet Destination: Public IP for Web Server
Original Packet Service: HTTP
Translated Packet Source: Original
Translated Packet Destination: Static NAT to Web Server
Translated Packet Service: Original
The reason why you would want to do this is if you have many servers that need to use public IP addresses, you can use the same public address, but translate it to different servers based on the service being used.
I don't know if you'll find any real documentation on PAT, but hopefully that explains it for you. __________________
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Aaron Vivo
CCSE Plus, CCMSE, NSA
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