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NAT reverse path failure

Mark Crawford
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Hi All,

I hope somenone can help with this particulary frustrating issue I've got.

I should say that I'm fairly new to Cisco firewalls, so please bear with me.

I have a piece of software on my print server that sends toner level information to my print supplier. The software periodically uses a telnet session to test connectivity, but this is failing.

My print server has a static NAT through the firewall. The settings are;

Inside IP: 11.0.214.8

Outside: 10.199.155.250

According to packet tracer, the traffic is getting from my print server out to my suppliers server, but is getting dropped on the way back in by a NAT rule.

The message in the log is;

"Asymmetric NAT rules matched for forward and reverse flows; Connection for protocol 0 src outside:168.63.28.202 dst inside:11.0.214.8 denied due to NAT reverse path failure."

Can anyone shed some light on what I might be doing wrong?

Regards

Mark

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