Hi

I have a weird problem.
I can't ping the outside IP address of a static translation
from an inside host.

Here my need:

Outside IP address for host: a.b.c.10
Inside IP address of host: x.y.z.5



Here my conf.:

ip address outside a.b.c.5 255.255.255.248
ip address inside x.y.z.1 255.255.255.0

static (inside,outside) a.b.c.10 x.y.z.5 netmask 255.255.255.255 0 0

access-list outside permit icmp any any
access-group outside in interface outside


From an inside host x.y.z.35 I can of course ping x.y.z.5.
But I'm unable to ping a.b.c.10 (the ext. IP address in the translation).

Why can't I ping the external IP address ?


BR

R.B.P.

In article <Xns94DC86CDE7303nospamthankscom@63.223.5.254>,
nospam@thanks.com says...
I think that it's question of rule that packet can pass just one time
trough the same interface (and here it should do it 2 times - out of
outside and than back in outside).


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Ivan

In article <Xns94DC86CDE7303nospamthankscom@63.223.5.254>,
"R.B.P." <nospam@thanks.com> wrote:

That's not a weird problem, it's a very frequent question here.

NAT only takes place when traffic is going from inside to outside or
vice versa.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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