NAT policies, rules, and processing orders
With each new policy package, a NAT policy is automatically created. When we click on it in the navigation view on the left-hand side, we can see that it is comprised of the following column headers:
- No.
- Name
- Original Source
- Original Destination
- Original Services
- Translated Source
- Translated Destination
- Translated Services
- Install On
- Comments
Right-clicking anywhere in the headers area will manifest a column selector menu where we can check an empty checkbox for Hits to enable counters for each rule:
Figure 10.1 – The NAT policy structure
A policy is prepopulated with several section titles prefixed with Automatic Generated Rules:, and followed by either (No Rules) or the rule numbers within the section.
These are listed as follows:
- Machine Static NAT
- Machine Hide NAT
- Address Range Static NAT
- Network Static NAT
- Address Range Hide...
