is it possible to have a Nat network inside of a Nat network?

Arwins Singh

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Oct 2, 2013
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I was running VMware and saw the option for Nat in the network settings. If I choose this option will it work? Im away from my PC ATM but I couldn't wait to find out. So I have a physical network that is behind a Nat router. and in that network I have a machine running VMware. Hypothetically, if I run several virtual machines and put then behind the Nat that VMware offers, will that translate the private addresses of the VMware machines into private addresses of the physical network? Or how would it work.
 
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As long as the address on the outside is not in the same subnet as the address on the inside you can NAT as many times as you want. It is a simple substitution and each device just looks it up and replaces the values. You just have to be careful in your address selection. Still it only matters the 2 addresses the device can see. I have many time intentionally done nat from a public internet address to a private block and then back again to the same exact public block. I was intentionally duplicating the addresses so I could assign what the machine though was the actual public address directly to the machine. NAT could care less as long as the outside and inside addresses do not conflict on that one device it could care less...
As long as the address on the outside is not in the same subnet as the address on the inside you can NAT as many times as you want. It is a simple substitution and each device just looks it up and replaces the values. You just have to be careful in your address selection. Still it only matters the 2 addresses the device can see. I have many time intentionally done nat from a public internet address to a private block and then back again to the same exact public block. I was intentionally duplicating the addresses so I could assign what the machine though was the actual public address directly to the machine. NAT could care less as long as the outside and inside addresses do not conflict on that one device it could care less what other devices are doing.
 
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