AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION FOR DEVICES HAVING AN INCOMPATIBLE NETWORK ADDRESS

A computer program product includes program instructions configured to be executable by a processor of a networking hardware device to cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations include monitoring network communications on a first port of the networking hardware device to identify a first network address of a first device attached to the first local port and determining that the first network address is incompatible with communication on an external network. The operations further include automatically configuring, in response to determining that the first network address is incompatible with communication on an external network, independent network address translation for the first local port to translate the incompatible first network address to a compatible network address for all egress traffic from the first device and to translate the compatible network address to the incompatible first network address for all ingress traffic to the first device.