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Simple NAT

Chris Shaw
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Hello All,

Our main internet connection went down today and I realised that I really should have a backup plan in place to handle inbound email. Luckily I had a Cisco 877 knocking around doing not much. The mail server (Microsoft Exchange) has two network connections, one to the internet with a public IP and one to our internal network with a private IP. The default route is set to the ISP's gateway.

I set up the 877 with a DSL connection using SDM (I know, but it's quick) and used NAT to forward port 25 to the internal IP address of the mailserver. Obviously the mailserver does not route the traffic back to the 877 but tries to send it through the ISP's gateway.

The question is: How can I get NAT to translate the source address of the incoming mail to the 877's local IP address?

I seem to remember that Microsoft ISA Server had a tick box on the firewall rules called something like 'Requests appear to come from the ISA server computer'. That's basically what I'm trying to do.

Any ideas?

Thanks,


Chris

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289114
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hi,

nat line seems to be ok,
did you have to add a secondary route on the exchange server ?
also it might be that the connection you are using is home connection, and the real IP address cannot be reached with destination port 25. check with your ISP.

Regards,

Sayed

Hello Sayed,

Thank you for your reply. If I manually set the default gateway on the mailserver to the 877, everything works ok so I think the standard NAT config is OK.

It's fairly difficult to describe this but basically I need external requests that pass through the NAT to appear to the mailserver as though they are coming from the 877's internal interface.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks,

Chris

Hello Chris,

i don't think it is possible to resolve it the way you are thinking about . Anyway, you can try the ip nat outside to translate the outside access to the inside interface, so that the traffic going to the email server appears as if it is originated from the inside interface

so it should look like this

ip access-list extended 101
permit tcp any host outside_interface_ip eq 25

route-map MAPOUTSIDE

match ip address 101

ip nat outside source route-map MAPOUTSIDE interface fa0/0


The problem that the 877 doesn't know that it must send the traffic to the exchange server, even if the traffic appears to be originating from inside interface


The nat inside that you are using works much better, but what you need to do, is to let the exchange go back on the same route that it came from. Try to add a static route to your exchange server:

route add -p 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 172.16.7.252 metric 10
so in case the default gateway is down, this route will be preferred.

Hope it was helpfull.
Regards

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