Labs · 3 scenarios

NAT & Port Forwarding

Work through how address translation lets private networks share public addresses — and what breaks it.

Beginner

Static NAT basics

A one-to-one mapping gives a single internal server a fixed public address.

Intermediate

PAT / NAT overload

Share one public IP across many internal hosts using port numbers.

Advanced

NAT troubleshooting

Diagnose a misconfigured ACL that silently excludes a subnet from translation.