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NAT UDP packets to internal Broadcast-Address?

Akisu
System UTM220 FW: 8.310

Some sort of special question.

Is it possible to NAT UDP traffic to an internal broadcast address?

Explanation we receive UDP packets on an public IP of he UTM and want to use these packets on all clients in an internal private network. I tried this NAT-configuration: 
 --> DNAT --> 192.168.0.255 (this is a host with the IP .255 not the Interface-Broadcast. Interface-Broadcast of the internal net is not useable). 
It does not work. Is there a way?


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  • 0 in reply to Akisu
    I understood what you were writing. And as I said this specific way is technically impossible.
    What I meant was: There might be a completely different way to aproach what you need. One often has some kind of "organizational blindness" if you have to find a solution to a problem. Others possibly have other ideas.
    But for that we need to know the surrounding information.

    What's the service behind that?
    Do you have access to the sender of the packets?

    Or a simple thought:
    Perhaps some possibilities to forward the packets to one host and then broadcast them?
  • 0 in reply to scorpionking
    Oh, ok. Than I misunderstood.

    A workaround like NAT to one host, which sends the broadcast, is not a real problem, but not the preferred solution (we run an active-passive HA cluster of 2 UMTs to keep redundancy, with the one host solution we brake the redundancy). It would be very handy to solve the problem in the UTM. 

    The service is a specific telemetry system of NASA.