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- From: Roland Acra <acra@cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: Route single IP address to another subnet?
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov5.004645.8257@prism.poly.edu>; from "Dave Rubin" at Nov 5, 92 12:46 am
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:40:27 PST
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- > Our primary domain nameserver is being moved to a new building, and to
- > a different subnet. I would like to use our Cisco AGS+ routers to
- > ease the transition by forwarding packets destined for the old IP
- > address to the new one. I don't know if this is possible.
- >
- > Here's our basic topology:
- >
- > -------128.238.2.0-----[AGS1]------128.238.30.0------[AGS2]----128.238.32.0
- > Ethernet | FDDI | \ Ethernet
- > | | \
- > Other Other +---INTERNET
- > Subnets Subnets
- >
- > The machine in question is being moved from 128.238.2.17 to 128.238.32.23.
- > Internet nameserver queries go to 128.238.2.17.
- >
- > I would like AGS2 to take all packets destined for 128.238.2.17 and
- > route them to 128.238.32.23 instead. Or, if there is some way I can keep
- > the IP address at 128.238.2.17 on the new subnet, that would work, too
- > (but that seems to contradict what I know about TCP/IP networking).
- >
- > Can I somehow have the AGS+ do this? This is, of course, a temporary
- > solution, until the NIC is able to update their database to reflect the
- > new IP address. We are running v8.3(2).
- >
- > Any help would be greatly appreciated ... please respond via E-mail.
-
- Unfortunately, the router can only redirect UDP broadcast packets
- to specific IP addresses or network numbers, but packets destined
- to an individual address such as 128.238.2.17 cannot be remapped
- to a different destination address.
-
- I can see one solution if you are willing to change the subnet
- number of your left-hand side Ethernet (presumably not very
- desirable unless it is very sparsely populated):
-
- If you could change the subnet number on your left hand side Ethernet
- to something other than 128.238.2.0, then you could cumulate two subnets
- on your right hand side Ethernet, namely subnets 128.238.2.0 and 128.238.32.0 .
- Your host could then stay on the right hand side Ethernet and keep its address
- of 128.238.2.17 .
-
- Roland Acra
- Cisco Systems, Europe
-