Problem in Final Lab on CCNA3 Discovery

I am currently part way through a lab provided in the CCNA3 course material that requires you to set up a network covering most of the topics covered in CCNA3 such as stp, vlans, ppp, ospf ect.

I am now at the point of configuring PAT on the "HQ" router that sits between the LAN router and the ISP's router.

My issue is that the documentation task's you with configuring NAT overload before configuring and access list's, as it later states to ensure functionality of the network before configuring ACL's. I cannot however seem to enter a command that statically specifies the entire LAN subnet to be translated to the outside NAT.

The command I part entered was 'ip nat inside source static 172.20.0.0 255.255.252.0 ?' the '?' specifies where I cannot get any further with the command.

I am just doing this completely wrong? Or am I being misled by the documentation in which I should be configuring an ACL first?

I might also add that I have configured both serial interfaces of the "HQ" router as ip nat inside and outside.

I hope I have explained myself correctly, please question me if not.

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gbdavidx

After a quick google search I think your missig an IP address after 172.20.0.0

Sample Configuration Using the ip nat outside source list Command - Cisco Systems

so...

Router(config)#ip nat inside source static 172.20.0.0 ?
A.B.C.D Inside global IP address
Router(config)#ip nat inside source static 172.20.0.0

Try Router(config)#ip nat inside source static 172.20.0.0 ? A.B.C.D Inside global IP address
Router(config)#ip nat inside source static 172.20.0.0

Dan-Humphreys

I can't seem to find the command from that material, I think I read that article when I was trying to Google this issue. From the output I can see the NAT has been configured with an ACL.

Sorry I just saw the 2nd bit of the post, the 172.20.0.0 address is actually the inside address, the outside address is 209.165.201.1

Dan-Humphreys

I think I can see another error in what I am trying to do, I need to specify the entire 172.20.0.0/22 subnet to the 209.165.201.1 address, but I am now not sure if by just entering 172.20.0.0 that it will translate all address's in this /22 subnet.

EDIT: It worked!

gbdavidx

what was the final command?

Dan-Humphreys

'ip nat inside source static 172.20.0.0 209.165.201.1'

My mistake was trying to specify the subnet mask in the command. This command did allow all traffic on the 172.20.0.0/22 subnet to be translated.

Illumanati

Dan-Humphreys wrote: »

I am currently part way through a lab provided in the CCNA3 course material that requires you to set up a network covering most of the topics covered in CCNA3 such as stp, vlans, ppp, ospf ect.

I am now at the point of configuring PAT on the "HQ" router that sits between the LAN router and the ISP's router.

My issue is that the documentation task's you with configuring NAT overload before configuring and access list's, as it later states to ensure functionality of the network before configuring ACL's. I cannot however seem to enter a command that statically specifies the entire LAN subnet to be translated to the outside NAT.

The command I part entered was 'ip nat inside source static 172.20.0.0 255.255.252.0 ?' the '?' specifies where I cannot get any further with the command.

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