Palo alto networks NAT flow logic
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The document provides examples and explanations of network address translation (NAT) configurations on Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. It shows how NAT policies work with security policies to translate source and destination IP addresses and apply firewall rules. The first example demonstrates static destination NAT to map any internal address to a single public address. The second example uses source NAT to map a DMZ subnet to an internal address. Flow charts illustrate how the firewall evaluates zones, NAT rules, security rules and applies address translations at each step.
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- 1. Palo Alto Networks Network Address Translation For Dummies Alberto Rivai, CCIE, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer ANZ
- 2. NAT Example 1 static destination NAT 2 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. NAT Policy Security Policy
- 3. 3 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Example 1 3 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Internal Internet Untrust zone Trust zone 172.17.1.40 102.100.88.90
- 4. Example 2 4 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Security Policy NAT Policy
- 5. Example 2 5 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. DMZ Internal Internet Untrust zone Trust zone DMZ zone 104.150.226.0/24 172.17.1.39
- 6. Flow Logic of the Next-Generation Firewall Initial Packet Processing Source Zone/ Address/ User-ID PBF/ Forwarding Lookup Destination Zone NAT Policy Evaluated Security Pre-Policy Check Allowed Ports Session Created Application Check for Encrypted Traffic Decryption Policy Application Override Policy App-ID Security Policy Check Security Policy Check Security Profiles Post Policy Processing Re-Encrypt Traffic NAT Policy Applied Packet Forwarded 6 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confiden@al and Proprietary
- 7. NAT Example 1 static destination NAT 7 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. NAT Policy Security Policy
- 8. 8 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 1 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 9. 9 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Untrust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 1 2 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 10. 10 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Untrust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule 1 2 3 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 11. 11 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Untrust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 1 2 3 4 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 12. 12 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Untrust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 Security rulebase checked for a matching rule 1 2 3 4 5 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 13. 13 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Untrust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 Security rulebase checked for a matching rule Source and/or Destination IP address re-written per NAT rules 1 2 3 4 5 6 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 14. 14 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Untrust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 102.100.88.90 Security rulebase checked for a matching rule Source and/or Destination IP address re-written per NAT rules Source Address Any Destination Address 172.16.1.40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 15. Example 2 15 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Security Policy NAT Policy DMZ Internal Internet Untrust zone Trust zone DMZ zone 104.150.226.0/24 172.17.1.39
- 16. 16 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 1 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 17. 17 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from 1 2 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone DMZ Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80
- 18. 18 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone DMZ Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary 1 2 3 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 19. 19 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone DMZ Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 1 2 3 4 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 20. 20 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone DMZ Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 Security rulebase checked for a matching rule Source and/or Destination IP address re-written per NAT rules 1 2 3 4 5 6 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 21. 21 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone DMZ Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 Security rulebase checked for a matching rule Source and/or Destination IP address re-written per NAT rules 1 2 3 4 5 6 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 22. 22 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 PANOS assigns Source Zone based on interface packet ingress; Assigns Destination Zone based on interface packet would egress from Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone DMZ Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 NAT rulebase checked for a matching rule PANOS checks the interface the packet will egress from; Changes Destination Zone if necessary Source Zone Untrust Destination Zone Trust Source Address Any Destination Address 104.160.226.80 Security rulebase checked for a matching rule Source and/or Destination IP address re-written per NAT rules Source Address Any Destination Address 172.16.1.39 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PANOS Zone and IP Address Processing flow
- 23. NAT Policy Logic § Source and Destination zones on NAT policy are evaluated pre-NAT based on the routing table § Example 1: if you are translating traffic that is incoming to an internal server (which is reached via a public IP by Internet users), it is necessary to configure the NAT policy using the zone in which the public IP address resides. § Example 2 :if you are translating traffic that is incoming to an internal server (which is reached via a public IP by Internet users and that public IP is routed to a DMZ zone), it is necessary to configure the NAT policy using the DMZ zone § Original IP addresses are ALWAYS used with rules, no matter which policy. Why ? Because address translation does not actually happen until the packet egresses the firewall. § The ONLY zone that may change from the original packet during processing is the Destination Zone.
- 24. Destination NAT Policy configuration 24 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. The zone where the source ip coming from ( i.e internet zone ) The zone of the natted IP. To check which zone, execute the below command “show routing route destination <natted ip subnet/ mask>”, then check interface’s zone Original source address Natted IP Real IP
- 25. Source NAT § PAN-OS supports the following options for source translation: § Dynamic-ip-and-port (DIPP) § Dynamic-ip (DIP) § Static IP 25 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 26. DIP NAT § In this form of NAT, the original source port number is left intact. Only the source IP address will be translated. § When using the dynamic-ip type of source NAT, the size of the NAT pool must be equal to the number of the internal hosts that require address translation. If all the IP addresses in the pool are in use, any connections from new hosts cannot be address translated and hence will be dropped. New sessions from hosts with established sessions with NAT will be allowed. 26 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 27. DIPP NAT § For translating both the source IP address AND port numbers, DIPP ( dynamic IP and port ) type of translation must be used § This form of NAT is also commonly referred to as interface-based NAT or network address port translation ( NAPT ) § On Cisco routers § NAT Overload § Juniper Netscreen § PAT 27 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 28. Translated IPs 28 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 29. When do we need oversubscription § use case 1 § When you have an “X” number of public IP and need more than “X” x 64511 NAT sessions 29 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 30. NAT capacity ( PA3050) 30 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Maximum NAT rules combined ( Static, DIP and DIPP ) Maximum Static NAT Maximum DIP NAT Maximum DIPP NAT Maximum DIP IPs Maximum DIPP IPs with oversubscription off ( 1x ) Default oversubscription ( source IP and port being reused 2x, different destination IP ) 800
- 31. DIPP oversubscription § Useable # ports : § 65535 – 1024 = 64511 § Example maximum number of PA3050 NAT DIPP sessions § Default DIPP oversubscription for PA3050 is 2x § If you are using 1 public IP and use default DIPP oversubscription 2x § 1 x 64511 x 2 = 129,022 NAT sessions § Maximum number of NAT sessions for PA3050 when max DIPP (8x) is being used § ( 800 max translated address / 8 max oversub ) x 8 x 64511 = 51,608,000 NAT sessions § This is assuming all sessions going to different destinations 31 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 32. Example oversub 1x 32 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 33. Example oversub 8x 33 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 34. NAT CLI Command § Check DIPP/DIP rule capacity 34 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 35. 35 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
- 36. 36 | ©2014, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.