Understanding Netopia NAT Behavior C-3
When the Netopia R9100 receives this IP packet, it cannot simply for ward it to the WAN inter face and the
Internet since the IP addresses on the LAN inter face are not valid or globally unique for the Internet. Instead,
the Netopia R9100 has to change the IP packet to reflect the IP address that was acquired on the WAN
inter face from the ISP.
The Netopia R9100 will first substitute the source IP address with the IP address that was acquired on the WAN
inter face, which in this case is 200.1.1.40. Next the Netopia R9100 will substitute the source TCP or UDP por t
with a TCP or UDP por t from within a specified range maintained within the Netopia R9100. And finally the
modified IP packet's checksum is recalculated (as specified in RFC 1631) and the packet is transmitted across
the WAN inter face to its destination, the WWW ser ver on the Internet.
If the send and response IP packets were drawn out, this process would look like the following:
As you can see, the IP packet from Workstation A is sent to the Netopia R9100 and the source IP address is
substituted with 200.1.1.40 and the source por t is substituted with 5001, then the IP packet checksum is
recalculated. When this modified packet reaches the WWW ser ver on the Internet, the WWW ser ver responds
and sends the IP packet back to destination IP address 200.1.1.40 and destination por t 5001.
When the Netopia R9100 receives this IP packet from the WWW ser ver, the Netopia R9100 replaces the
destination IP address with 192.168.5.2, the address for Workstation A. The por t is changed back to 400, the
IP packet checksum is recalculated, and the IP packet is sent to Workstation A on the Netopia R9100s LAN
inter face.
Netopia
Router
WWW Server
163.176.4.32
ISP Router
200.1.1.1
ISP Router to WWW
Src IP: 200.1.1.40
Dst IP: 163.176.4.32
Src Port: 5001
Dst Port: 80
WWW to ISP Router
Src IP: 163.176.4.32
Dst IP: 200.1.1.40
Src Port: 80
Dst Port: 5001
Netopia to ISP Router
Src IP: 200.1.1.40
Dst IP: 163.176.4.32
Src Port: 5001
Dst Port: 80
ISP Router to Netopia
Src IP: 163.176.4.32
Dst IP: 200.1.1.40
Src Port: 80
Dst Port: 5001
Wkstn A to Netopia
Src IP: 192.168.5.2
Dst IP: 163.176.4.32
Src Port: 400
Dst Port: 80
Netopia to Wkstn A
Src IP: 163.176.4.32
Dst IP: 192.168.5.2
Src Port: 80
Dst Port: 400
Netopia Router
LAN: 192.168.5.1
WAN: 200.1.1.40
Workstation A
192.168.5.2
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