Can I have a static bi-directional NAT rule and a PAT rule working together?

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Can I have a static bi-directional NAT rule and a PAT rule working together?

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Hi,

 

I currently have a static NAT bi-directional policy, number 6 in the screenshot, that publishes an internal server (LAB-Skype) on Internet using a public IP (LAB-Skype-pub). This works fine.

 

Now I need to add an exception for port 443 for that public IP, which needs to be redirected to port 4443 towards the same internal server.

I tried to create a policy translating the original packet arriving at the public server (LAB-Skype-pub tcp/443) to the internal server (LAB-Skype tcp/4443). this is policy number 5 in the screenshot.

 

Unfortunately, I don't see any hit (0) on the policy. Any idea about what I am doing wrong?

 

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

If traffic comes from External zone it is destined to your firewall public IP.

Your firewall public IP is located in External zone.

It means that rule 5 destination zone must be External for this rule to match.

Enterprise Architect, Security @ Cloud Carib Ltd
Palo Alto Networks certified from 2011

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

If traffic comes from External zone it is destined to your firewall public IP.

Your firewall public IP is located in External zone.

It means that rule 5 destination zone must be External for this rule to match.

Enterprise Architect, Security @ Cloud Carib Ltd
Palo Alto Networks certified from 2011

L2 Linker

thanks a lot, you were so right!

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