Chapter 8. NAT Functions
Dealing with the vagaries of routing structures using a dynamic routing protocol is very helpful. But it is limited in usefulness when you consider the current structure of the IPv4 Internet. Within the boundaries of a corporate network, routing is defined and scoped. Many of the routing tricks such as asymmetric, or loopy, routing, and the related structures take on a whole new meaning when applied to the border and outside of a corporate network.
While the examples you saw in Chapters 5, "Simple Network Examples" and 6, "Complex Network Examples" about border area Policy Routing work well when you consider the entire scope of the addressing space, what about cases where there is address translation? These cases of ...
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