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

Filename (NAT Validation)

Select Validate to validate Network Address Translation entries contained in a specified NAT configuration file.

Run Validation

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

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.