At 12:23 PM 1/17/97 -0500, Patrick Bartkus wrote:
>Luis Israel Serrano Barge wrote:
>>Just a little question.
>>Can Cisco Routers serve also as an address translation box?.
>
>My Cisco S.E. said that while it will be able to do NAT with IOS 11.2, we
>really DIDN'T want to add that burden to the router.
>
>Of course, he might have been just wanting to sell us a PIX box. :-)
>
>Patrick
>
It depends on the function of the box. If it is a backbone router, its
probably not a good idea to burden it with the extra baggage of NAT (or
ACL's for that matter).
Regards,
Joe, oolid @
acqic .
org
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