Cisco “clear ip nat translation” helper tool

Have you ever had to clear some specific NAT translations while avoiding to drop them all? You have to enter a long and annoying command such this a lot of times:

clear ip nat translation udp inside 1.2.3.4 7021 192.168.0.112 7021 outside 5.6.7.8 5060 5.6.7.8 5060

And you know, you have to do it many times, for every NAT entry you have to clear… and those entries are all there, within a single command output:

#show ip nat translations | inc 192.168.0.112
udp 1.2.3.4:7021     192.168.0.112:7021    5.6.7.8:5060    5.6.7.8:5060
udp 1.2.3.4:7022     192.168.0.112:7022    5.6.7.8:5060    5.6.7.8:5060

Well, I was bored once too often, so I’ve built a little tool: you have just to copy show ip nat translations entries you have to clear, paste them into this tool, and it builds the clear ip nat translation statements for you! ready to be pasted into your telnet/ssh client.

It’s an HTML page with a simple javascript; you can find it online, or here is the source code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Cisco "clear ip nat translation" helper</title>
<style type="text/css">
	body,td,th { color:black;font-family:Verdana; font-size: 8pt }
	input, textarea { color:black;font-family:Verdana; font-size: 8pt }
</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
	function Do()
	{
		var sEntries = new String();
		sEntries = document.forms['frmMain'].entries.value;

		var sVRF = new String();
		sVRF = document.forms['frmMain'].vrf.value;

		var sReplace;
		if ( sVRF == '' )
			sReplace = "clear ip nat translation $1 inside $2 $3 $4 $5 outside $6 $7 $8 $9"
		else
			sReplace = "clear ip nat translation vrf " + sVRF + " $1 inside $2 $3 $4 $5 outside $6 $7 $8 $9";

		sEntries = sEntries.replace(/^(tcp|udp)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)/gm, sReplace)

		document.forms['frmMain'].result.value = sEntries;
	}
</script>

</head>

<body>

<form id=frmMain name=frmMain style="MARGIN:0px" action="#">
<table>
 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><b>Entries to clear</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td colspan=2>

Paste here the <b>show ip nat translations</b> entries you want to clear:

  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><textarea wrap=off style="white-space:pre; overflow-x: scroll; overflow-y: scroll" name=entries id=entries cols=100 rows=10></textarea></td>
 </tr>

 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><br></td>
 </tr>

 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><b>VRF aware?</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td colspan=2>

If these entries are part of a vrf, write here the vrf name, otherwise leave this box empty:

  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td><b>VRF name:</b></td>
  <td><input type=text name=vrf id=vrf size=15 value=""></td>
 </tr>

 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><br></td>
 </tr>

 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><b>Results</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><textarea wrap=off style="white-space:pre; overflow-x: scroll; overflow-y: scroll; WIDTH:99%" readonly name=result id=result cols=100 rows=10></textarea></td>
 </tr>

 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><br></td>
 </tr>

 <tr>
  <td colspan=2 align=center><input type=button onclick="Do()" value="  Build clear ip nat translation statements  "></td>
 </tr>

</table>
</form>

<br>

by Pier Carlo Chiodi - AKA Pierky<br>
<br>
Blog: <a href="http://blog.pierky.com" target="_blank">http://blog.pierky.com</a><br>
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8 Comments

  1. quija says:

    briliant! Helped me a lot. Thanks

  2. Alexander Moisseev says:

    What’s about icmp translations?

    • pierky says:

      AFAIK you can’t clear a specific ICMP translation.

      • Александр Моисеев says:

        So, we must exclude from the output icmp translations, static translations and chars copied from terminal by accident (especially configuration commands).

        Patch for sanitize entries (it outputs only commands that corresponds tcp and udp static translations):


        --- D:/tmp/cisco-clear-ip-nat-translation-helper-tool.html Tue Dec 15 11:57:40 2009
        +++ D:/tmp/cisco-clear-ip-nat-translation-helper-tool-sanitized.html Tue Dec 15 17:53:16 2009
        @@ -23,7 +23,14 @@
        else
        sReplace = "clear ip nat translation vrf " + sVRF + " $1 inside $2 $3 $4 $5 outside $6 $7 $8 $9";

        + sEntries = sEntries.replace(/^clear ip nat translation .+/gm, ""); // Removes "clear ip nat translation" commands
        +
        sEntries = sEntries.replace(/^(tcp|udp)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)s+(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}):(d+)/gm, sReplace)
        +
        + var aEntries = new Array();
        +
        + aEntries = sEntries.match(/^clear ip nat translation .+n/gm); // Excludes entries that were not match replacement regexp
        + sEntries = aEntries.join(""); // Converts array to sring

        document.forms['frmMain'].result.value = sEntries;
        }

  3. michael says:

    Awesome! Great little tool. Thank you

  4. julio says:

    Excelente!!! Muchas gracias. Un abrazo. Julio

  5. Juan Carlos says:

    Works great!!! Thank you very much!!!!!

  6. George Kaplan says:

    Great tool, thanks for the efforts.

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