Configuring Source And Destination NAT With Firewall Builder

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 1, 2011

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Firewall Builder is a firewall configuration and
management GUI that supports configuring a wide range of firewalls
from a single application. Supported firewalls include Linux
iptables, BSD pf, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco router access lists and many
more. The complete list of supported platforms along with
downloadable binary packages and soure code can be found at
http://www.fwbuilder.org.

“In this tutorial we are going to cover how to use Firewall
Builder to configure a NAT rule that translates both the source and
destination IP addresses of the original packet. This type of NAT
configuration can be useful in a variety of network
configurations.

“There are situations where both the source and destination IP
addresses of a packet need to be NAT’ed. The diagram below shows
just such a scenario where an internal server needs to be accessed
remotely from the outside using the Remote Desktop Protocol
(RDP).”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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