WALL IE, Industrial Ethernet Bridge and Firewall | Version 1 | 15.05.2017
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NAT operating mode
When several automation cells with the same address range are to be incorporated into a production
network, this can result in collisions, as the addresses in the entire network are not unambiguous.
Using Network Address Translation (NAT), WALL IE makes it possible to incorporate several
automation cells into the production network.
In the NAT operating mode, WALL IE forwards the data transfer between various IPv4 networks (Layer
3) and exchanges the IP addresses with the help of NAT. The packet filters and MAC addresses
white/blacklisting can also be used to check the data traffic.