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Understanding NAT for GTP

A General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) interface supports both GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) inspection and Network Address Translation (NAT) simultaneously in the same routing instance. When GTP packets configured with static NAT are inspected in a network, only addresses within IP headers are translated. The addresses within their payloads are not translated. For each endpoint, the related GTP session must belong to the same zone and virtual router. This means the header source IP, C-tunnel IP, and U-tunnel IP in the payload are defined in the same scope for a packet.

Note: When you enable NAT, only the outer IP packet has to be translated. The embedded IP addresses are not translated.

During a GTP packet flow, the source IP address and destination IP address cannot be translated to NAT simultaneously. When you delete or deactivate NAT rule configuration on a device, the NAT rule related GSN and GTP tunnels are deleted. If the NAT rule related GSN number and tunnel number are huge, this deleting process will take several minutes.

Published: 2015-02-11