Client side translation/routing?

[Brentd]

I was trying to find information on when the NAT and routing decisions were made in the GW (relative to each other) and how client side NAT modifies this (if at all).

Doing destination NAT, does the NAT happen before the routing decisions are made or the other way around, and does client side NAT change this order??

Thanks
Brent

[northlandboy]

If you've got client-side NAT turned on (the default) it does the NAT first, then makes a routing decision based on the translated destination.

This makes life easy.

If you turn it off, it makes a routing decision based on the address before it's done any NATting - so you end up having to put a whole lot of /32 routes in for your NATs.

Use "translate on client side", it makes your life much easier. I can't think why you would do it the other way, unless you've upgraded a 4.1 system, and stupidity^Winertia has stopped you changing it.

[Brentd]

Thanks for your help!