Interfaces and Device Settings Network Address Translation Configure NAT for Threat Defense Identity NAT

Last updated: Aug 18, 2025

Identity NAT

You might have a NAT configuration in which you need to translate an IP address to itself. For example, if you create a broad rule that applies NAT to every network, but want to exclude one network from NAT, you can create a static NAT rule to translate an address to itself.

The following figure shows a typical identity NAT scenario.

Figure 1: Identity NAT

The following topics explain how to configure identity NAT.