What does enabling/disabling the NAT option in a Policy exactly do?

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What does enabling/disabling the NAT option in a Policy exactly do?

[rwpatterson · Accepted solution]

Basically it changes the source address that the traffic comes from. When traversing the Internet, you need to use this so the traffic appears to come from the public IP address as opposed to the inside address. You could also choose another address if you define it in the IP Pool section. With NAT turned off, the native address is used for the originating traffic to the end point.

[rwpatterson · Accepted solution]

Basically it changes the source address that the traffic comes from. When traversing the Internet, you need to use this so the traffic appears to come from the public IP address as opposed to the inside address. You could also choose another address if you define it in the IP Pool section. With NAT turned off, the native address is used for the originating traffic to the end point.

[emnoc · Accepted solution]

Enable slource or destination nat depending on if you nave nat pool and|or a vip in the name firewall policy or just plain egress nat if your doing snat. Alternative a centralize nat table can be used similar to other fw vendors like checkpoint, forcepoint, ciscoASA, juniperSRX, etc........

Ken Felix