[FW-1] Reposting: [FW-1] Bi-directional NAT ?

[brian dell <brian_dell2@FW1-NOSPAMYAHOO.COM>]

is this similar to double NATing ?


--- David Gillett <gillettdavid@FHDA.EDU> wrote:
>   It occasionally happens that you need to link two
> previously-
> separate private networks that have both chosen to
> use the same
> RFC 1918 private address range.  You can do that
> easily with two
> NAT devices, one to NAT each network to a different
> alternate
> space.
>   Bidirectional NAT lets you coalesce those two
> devices, and the
> link between them, into a single FW-1 box.  Pretty
> slick.
>
> David Gillett
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1
> >
>
[mailto:FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM]On
> Behalf Of brian
> > dell
> > Sent: July 21, 2003 15:07
> > To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM
> > Subject: [FW-1] Bi-directional NAT ?
> >
> >
> > what is bidirectional NAT ?
> >
> > please refer to the auotmatic NAT rules in the
> Address
> > Translation Rule base and allows two automatic NAT
> > rules to match a connection.
> > "without bidirectional NAT only the first
> automatic
> > NAT rule matching the connection is applied."
> >
> > if someone would know more about this, please
> email me
> > (or post to the list) as i want to understand this
> > concept. is this similar to double NATing ?
> >
> > i have an example network that we want to
> implement, i
> > can email that offline. also since what version
> has
> > this been supported ? since NG FP2 ?
> >
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