General Information on Network Address Translation

With the explosive growth of the Internet, IP address depletion becomes a problem. Network address translation (NAT) provides a solution to the IP address depletion problem by allowing addresses inside your secured IP network to be reused by any other IP network.

Network address translation translates secured IP addresses to temporary external registered addresses from the address pool in order to communicate with the outside world. IBM provides network address translation for any TCP or UDP application, which does not require changes in the data transferred. In addition, ftp is supported by providing translation of the IP address in the port command.

Further Information

Translating Network Addresses

Activate-Update Configuration

Choose this commmand to activate all of the Network Address Translation entries. If they are already active, this command will serve to update the current configurations with any changes made on the Network Address Translation setup panel.

Deactivate Configuration

Choose this command to deactivate the Network Address Translation entries.

Run Validation

Choose this command to ensure that all of the Network Address Translation entries are configured correctly.

Enable Logging (NAT)

Choose this command to enable Network Address Translation logging.

Disable Logging (NAT)

Choose this command to disable Network Address Translation logging.

Execute

Click on "Execute" to initiate the command selected above.

Output

As the command that you have intiated proceeds, progress information will appear here.

Close

Press the "Close" button to eliminate the window from your display.