[c-nsp] ICMP PAT

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) oboehmer at cisco.com
Tue Jun 3 12:03:15 EDT 2008


Ibrahim Abo Zaid <> wrote on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:46 AM:

> Hi All
> 
> according to Cisco docs , if ICMP PAT  is configured , ICMP packets
> sequence numbers are associated to ports in NAT table means a
> continuous traffic between a source and
> a destination can create up to 65535 entries in NAT table !!!
> 
> is that right , 65K entries for single flow ?

no, a continuous ping creates a single entry in the NAT table (just
checked).. where did you read the above?

	oli


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