Thanks much! Couldn't anyone come up with a more pleasing acronym 
than SNAT?  It's even worse than SLARP.

Can you give me any source on this announcement, offline if you prefer?

At 4:04 PM +0000 11/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>SNAT should be available in IOS on CCO around the first half of
>December. Please be aware that SNAT will be released in two phases as
>follows:
>Phase 1
>- SNAT for TCP/UDP protocols with NO embedded port info in the payload.
>- Symmetric routing only
>- inside NAT pools only
>
>Phase 2 due out in 1Q'03
>- support for protocols that embed port info in the payload. E.G FTP,
>PPTP/GRE, Skinny, TFTP.
>- Asymmetric routing support
>- outside NAT pool support
>- ip nat inside destination support
>
>Hope this helps :)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 22 November 2002 04:32
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Stateful NAT Failover [7:57857]
>
>
>Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>>
>>  I've been hunting for specific technical documentation on
>>  stateful
>>  failover between NAT instances in two routers, or even PIX.
>
>I don't know about routers, but there's an OK document about PIX failover
>here:
>
>http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note0918
>6a0080094ea7.shtml
>
>If you look at the section on Stateful Failover, you'll see that PIX address
>translation (xlate, static and dynamic) and connection (conn) records are
>passed to the standby unit from the active unit along with other state
>information.
>
>PIX has a Logical Update (LU) software module that provides transport to PIX
>applications supporting stateful failover. The state update occurs from the
>active to standby through the LAN interface. The state update sent to the
>standby PIX is triggered by the application. The LU transport is UDP-like,
>with no retransmission.
>
>(Bet that's not what you though LU stood for! ;-)
>
>There's not a whole lot of detail in the document, but it might be a start.
>
>Priscilla
>
>>  I
>>  can
>>  find lots of marketing references in the description of the
>>  Cisco
>>  GRIP architecture, and details of stateful IPsec failover.  No
>>  details of NAT failover.
>>
>>  On assorted search engines (Cisco and non-Cisco), it keeps
>>  coming
>>  back to stateful packet inspection, but not NAT per se.
>>
>>  By stateful NAT failover, assume the following scenario:
>>
>>  R1 is primary and R2 is backup.  R1 knows its mappings from
>>  outside
>>  address/port to inside address/port.  It shares this
>>  information with
>>  R2, which remains passive. Presumably, inside routers use HSRP
>>  to
>>  find the active NAT, which is on the DMZ.  HSRP on the DMZ can
>>  tell
>>  the Internet access routers which NAT is active.
>>
>>  Does anyone know where this is documented, or is it simply
>>  considered
>>  a subset of stateful packet inspection at the implementation,
>>  not
>>  marketing, level?
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