Who will be first? Nat or Routing

Hello,everybody,I got another problem in here.
Recently we are deploying our network, I got my cisco 2960 router. Now, I get one problem about it, because we have two ISPs, so I wonder does nat occur before or after routing? I couldn't find any explain about this from the datasheet in cisco.com.

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Gngogh

Hi,

When the router receive the frame its check the destination address, then looks in the routing table to where the frame should be forward, and then does the nat translations.

so i would say that NAT occurs after the routing.

If you have packet tracer you can see all the proccess in detail.

TheNewITGuy

IOS NAT order of operations:
NAT Order of Operation* [IP Addressing Services] - Cisco Systems

Routing occurs before NAT - so in your case of two ISP's you'll need to build some extra configurations

NAT failover with DUAL ISP on a router Configuration Example - DocWiki