August 2005
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ip nat pool — global
ip nat poolname starting-address ending-address[netmaskvalue| prefix-lengthlength] [type rotary] no ip nat poolname starting-address ending-address[netmaskvalue| prefix-lengthlength] [type rotary]
The IP address pool to be used in the NAT configuration
None
This command defines a sequential range of IP addresses to use with NAT configurations.
name
Name of the address pool.
starting-address
The beginning of the pool’s IP address range.
ending-address
The last IP address in the pool.
netmask
value
Specifies the netmask for the pool address range.
prefix-length
length
Specifies the number of ones in the bitmask.
type rotary
Optional. Specifies that the range of IP addresses corresponds to real hosts for which load distribution should occur. This means that the pool is defined as a round-robin set of address for load balancing. As new TCP connections are made, a new address is selected from the pool. Non-TCP traffic passes through without translation.