ASA 8.6 nat and access list for mail server

[dave love]

Trying to figure this all out. I'm getting untranslated hits. I posted the config I have so far.

interface GigabitEthernet0/0

nameif outside

security-level 0

ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/1

nameif inside

security-level 100

ip address 192.168.240.253 255.255.255.0

access-list incoming permit tcp any host 10.1.1.4 eq smtp

access-group incoming in interface outside

object network smtp-inside

host 192.168.240.130

nat (inside,outside) static smtp-outside service tcp smtp smtp

object group smtp-outside

host 10.1.1.4

SHOW ACCESS-LIST INCOMING

access-list incoming line 1 extended permit tcp any host 10.1.1.4 eq smtp (hitcnt=0)

SHOW NAT

Auto NAT Policies (Section 2)

1 (inside) to (outside) source static smtp-inside smtp-outside   service tcp smtp smtp

    translate_hits = 0, untranslate_hits = 12

PING 192.168.240.130

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.240.130, timeout is 2 seconds:

!!!!!

Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/1 ms

[Harish Balakrishnan]

Hello Dave,

Please modify the acl as follows and let me know the result

access-list incoming permit tcp any host 192.168.240.130 eq smtp

regards

Harish

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[dave love]

I'm trying to hit the mail server from the outside in this is the inside host.

[Julio Carvajal]

Hello Dave,

As Harish said you need to point the private IP, since 8.3 the ACL setup changed ( This means NAT goes first than the ACL check, that is why you must point the private ip address)

So do it like this

access-list incoming permit tcp any host 192.168.240.130 eq smtp

Regards

[dave love]

Thanks that worked. But now how do I make multiple port numbers for the same host?

It only allows one to one this way.

object network smtp-inside
host 192.168.240.130

nat (inside,outside) static smtp-outside service tcp smtp smtp

I need to say http, https, smtp all to the same host.

[Julio Carvajal]

Hello Dave,

well just do the same thing but change the services, and on the ACL make reference to the new services,

Regards,

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[dave love]

SO I don't use static tcp statements anymore. I just make separate object networks then assign them the port numbers via access lists. Do all the nat statements now need to be binded to the object groups? before I just made static statements now it seems I need to go into the object network and place the nat statement in there each time.I'm not sure I understand what nat statements mean outside of the object networks.

example that is working:

object network smtp-outside

host 10.1.1.4

object network smtp-inside
host 192.168.240.130

nat (inside,outside) static smtp-outside

access-list incoming extended permit tcp any object smtp-inside eq smtp

access-list incoming extended permit tcp any object smtp-inside eq 2500

[Julio Carvajal · Accepted solution]

Hello Dave,

Inside an object group there can only be a nat command, so you will need to create different object networks containing the same IP or use Twice Nat.

So you have those 2 options,

Hope that I could help,

Regards,