Redirecting to External IP Address

Hi Aaron,

 

 

In an nutshell we have a solution (two ftp servers) that is been moved off site to another datacentre. The problem is we have roughly 600 remote devices all over the world that references these two FTP servers by IP address not domain name. Obviosuly this is going to be very time consuming if not impossible with deadlines I have been given to change the remote device configuration. The IP addresses currently associated with these servers are not managed by ourselves and the people who do manage them will not let us take a /23 of there hosting range just for two addresses. We have two F5's are part of another shared managed solution in currently in place at this site. So I was wondering if the F5 would be able to redirect traffic to another data centre based on destination IP address?

 

 

For Example

 

Ftp1 = 1.1.1.1:port 22( In existing dc) get mapped and traffic redirect to 2.2.2.1:port 22 in New DC

 

Ftp2 = 1.1.1.2:port 22(In existing dc) get mapped and traffic redirect to 2.2.2.2:port 22 in New DC

 

 

If this is even possible now I have explained it a bit more and either standard vip/pool or Irule configuration can acheive this how do you think the return traffic would pass back through the F5?

 

 

I hope this paints a clearer picture of my problem.

 

 

Regards

 

 

Brett