If you’ve just finished the CCNA switching and routing basics, you’ve probably hit . It looks simple at first, but PAT (Port Address Translation) is what makes your home router work — mapping many private IPs to one public IP using different ports.
Objective: Get a small office network online using a single public IP address with PAT. 6.6.7 packet tracer - configure pat.pka
R1(config)# ip nat inside source list 1 interface serial 0/1/0 overload This means: Take any packet from ACL 1, translate its source IP to the S0/1/0 interface IP (209.165.200.226), and keep track by port number. From PC1, PC2, and Laptop, ping 209.165.200.225 . If you’ve just finished the CCNA switching and