Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Using Route Maps to Refine Static Translation Rules

Problem

You want to use route maps to give finer control over your static NAT translation rules.

Solution

One of the best uses of this feature appears when you have two Internet Provider connections and you want to use distinct NAT rules for each:

Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
Router(config-if)#ip address 172.16.1.5 255.255.255.252
Router(config-if)#ip nat outside
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#interface FastEthernet0/1
Router(config-if)#ip address 172.16.2.5 255.255.255.252
Router(config-if)#ip nat outside
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#interface FastEthernet0/2
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#ip nat inside
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#ip nat inside source route-map ISP-1 interface FastEthernet0/0 overload
Router(config)#ip nat inside source route-map ISP-2 interface FastEthernet0/1 overload
Router(config)#route-map ISP-1 permit 10
Router(config-route-map)#match interface FastEthernet0/0
Router(config-route-map)#exit
Router(config)#route-map ISP-2 permit 10
Router(config-route-map)#match interface FastEthernet0/1
Router(config-route-map)#exit
Router(config)#end
Router#

Discussion

This example shows a relatively common situation in which a network has two Internet connections for redundancy. Note that we don’t show the redundancy mechanism here, but it could be handled by BGP, ...