Routing Question

[bman38]

We have a server here in our office that all of our remote customers connect to either via VPN or frame relay. We are going to be putting a new server in it's place in a different state with an IP of 198.185.110.7 and will have connectivity to it via a VPN. Question is.. The IP of the server itself here in our office is (made up) 198.185.201.8. How can I make all incoming traffic that would connect to the server on .8 get redirected to the .7 address?

We have a Cisco 4500 router and I've been looking into the alias command and NAT, or it may be much simpler than I'm making it.

In a nutshell I just want all traffic to stop routing to our server here and go directly to the new server.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[LloydSev]

do they connect via a name, such as "server.domain.com"?

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[bman38]

The remote locations have a dns name tied to the IP of .8, so when all traffic leaves the remote servers it is destined for .8. I know we could change each of these, but we have hundreds of remote servers and I am looking for a way to just route the traffic destined for our server here to the new server. Then, down the road, we will begin to modify each of the remote end servers.

Thanks!

 

[LloydSev]

Wouldn't you just have the change the 1 DNS entry... ?

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[bman38]

I want to leave DNS alone and want to do this strictly via IP. Could I do a Static NAT route? Something like....

ip nat inside source static 198.185.201.8 198.185.110.7

Thanks again

 

[bcastner]

Config original server to another static IP in your address space.
Config new server to the original IP.