Shawn,

I know what you mean the doc cd is not entirely clear on this.
My thoughts are that its used to reverse the logic on the ACL in the route
map more than the addresses.
Especially when you take into account multiple statements that may be
permitted or denied.

Stu

2009/9/2 Shawn H Mesiatowsky <[email protected]>

>  I was just going over ios nat and came across something in my notes that
> does not make sense any longer (how often does that happen)
>
> When doing policy static nat in IOS, what is the reversible keyword for?
>
> ip nat inside source static 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 route-map rm1
>
> or
>
>  ip nat inside source static 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 route-map rm1 reversible
>
> I know with dynamic policy nat, this allows traffic to originate from the
> outside as well, but on a static translation this is already allowed. I
> performed a test, the first one without the reversible keyword. I was still
> able to come from the outside -> in. And I saw the same results with
> the reversible keyword used. Does the reversible keyword have a different
> purpose for statics? Or does this command have no affect on statics?
>
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