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# sk102453 - Traffic is NATed in undesired way

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk102453 |
| Date Created | 2015-09-24 |
| Last Modified | 2015-09-30 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway, Security Management Server |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20, R82.10, R82, R81.20, R82.20 |

## Symptoms

- Traffic to some destinations is NAT-ed to undesired IP address, which causes the translated traffic to follow the wrong route or be matched to a wrong rule.

## Cause

The most common scenario is where an Automatic NAT rule to Hide-NAT networks/hosts exists in the rulebase.

## Solution

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