Hi firat,
I didn't understand fully the configuration you are describing.
Something like this?
Host1 --SGSN1--\GGSN--Server
Host2 --SGSN2--/
Where Host1 has been assigned IP1 and Host2 has been assigned IP2, both
assigned by GGSN where IP1 != IP2. Let's assume the server IP is IPs and
the GGSN public uplink (non-GTP) IP is IPg.
As far as I understand, it works as follow:
- Case without NAT between GGSN and Server:
Host1 sends ICMP packet with saddr=IP1 daddr=IPs, which gets
encapsulated through GTP and GGSN decapsulates it. Same for Host2 but in
this case the packet will have saddr=IP2. As there's no NAT (eg. host
clients are assigned a public IP), the server receives 2 ICMP packets
with different saddr, and when answering back using the original saddr
now as daddr. As GGSN keeps track of the saddr assigned to each pdp
context, when it receives a packet from the uplink (non-GTP side), it
matches the daddr of the packet against the saddr of the active pdp ctx
to find to which pdp ctx should forward the packet.
- Case with NAT between GGSN and Server:
Almost the same but with extra steps done by the NAT. When the GGSN
sends the packet saddr=IP1 daddr=IPs to the server, the NAT changes
saddr=IP1->IPg. It does the same for saddr=IP2, but the NAT keeps track
of the binding. When the response is received from the server, the NAT
converts back IPg->IP1 and GGSN can again track the pdp ctx as described
in the previous case.
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