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Cisco NAT - connecting 2 offices to internet via NAT

Asked by: kittlej

My corporate office is hooked to my Network Operations Center via a T1 link.  This is a private, point-to-point TDM circuit and does not go across the internet.  The Corporate office has a Cisco 2620 and our NOC has a Cisco 2620, one on either side of the link.  Our corporate office has the network of 192.168.0.0 and the IP of the router's ethernet side is 192.168.0.254.  Our NOC has the ip network of 192.168.1.0 and the IP of the router's ethernet side is 192.168.1.254.  The serial side of the NOC router is 10.1.1.1 and the serial side of the Corporate office is 10.1.1.2 (I think I could run IP unnumbered between these links, but I just didn't).   At our NOC, I also have a Cisco 2620 router that does NAT translation, connecting our NOC to the internet.  The serial side of the NOC NAT router is (fake numbers, but representative of the scenerio) 208.10.10.2 and the ethernet side is 192.168.1.1.   All PC's on the NOC lan point to 192.168.1.1 for a gateway, and all are able to reach the internet from their desktops.  How do I set up the routing statements so that PC's in our corporate office can also access the internet via this NAT box located at our NOC?  Can this be done?

Here's a scribble picture.

CORP LAN (192.168.0.0)---[2620]------[2620]-NOC LAN (192.168.1.0)---[2620 NAT]---INTERNET

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

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2001-02-28 at 09:19:19ID20084994
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Answers

 

by: geoffrynPosted on 2001-02-28 at 11:46:54ID: 5888750

What subnet masks are you using on the various networks?

 

by: kittlejPosted on 2001-02-28 at 12:17:33ID: 5888810

on both buildings I'm using 255.255.255.0 and on the WAN link I think I'm using 255.255.255.252 (which there was really no need to do, but you know how your brain works at 4am sometimes) The globally unique address on the serial side of the NAT box has a 255.255.255.240 netmask

 

by: geoffrynPosted on 2001-02-28 at 14:40:55ID: 5889175

All you really need to do is set a gateway of last resort (default route) on the 192.168.0.0 router and make sure that the NAT is set up to spoof all internal addresses and not just those on the 192.168.1.0 network.

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2001-02-28 at 18:29:50ID: 5889678

Piece of cake:

Corp 2620, set default pointing to NOC:
!
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.1.1.1
!

NOC 2620, set default to Internet gateway:
!
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1
!

NOC Internet router:
# Allow 192.168.0.0 subnet:
!
ip subnet-zero
!
# set route back to your corp LAN through NOC 2620
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.254
!
# set your NAT to use access-list
ip nat source list 1 <Nat pool or interface/mask overload>
!
# put both networks in the access-list for NAT
access-list 1 permit 192.168.0.0
access-list 1 permit 192.168.1.0
!

You're on the 'net!

 

by: kittlejPosted on 2001-03-02 at 00:07:59ID: 5893700

Well.... What you say makes sense.  I drew it out on paper and it all looks like it would work.  It's 3am and I'm sitting in the NOC wishing I were armed with more caffeine to figure this out.  I'm working these changes remotely on the 0.254 router but when I go config t and then ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0 10.1.1.1 my connection breaks.  Seconds later, a RIP update takes place (heh its my safeguard in case i screw up static routes) and the connection comes back online.  Any idea why the connection between 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.1.2 dies when I do the routing statement?
  ... Need more caffeine...

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2001-03-02 at 05:11:16ID: 5894400

Try this:

Corp 2620, set default pointing to NOC:
!
ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 10.1.1.1
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.1.1.1
!

NOC 2620, set default to Internet gateway:
!
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.1.1.2
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1
!
Then you can turn off rip!

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2001-04-11 at 18:31:55ID: 6003961

kittlej,
Any updates for us? Still working on this?

 

by: kittlejPosted on 2001-05-23 at 07:04:46ID: 6112024

Sorry it took so long. I've been on another project and just now came back to this..  What you said worked and we are up and running. Both offices are able to access the internet connection behind the NAT  Thanks (sorry for the delay!)

 

by: kittlejPosted on 2001-05-23 at 07:05:27ID: 6112029

Sorry for the delay.  Thanks for the help!

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2001-05-23 at 13:48:45ID: 6113528

Glad to hear you're working!
Cheers!

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