Forum Discussion
I'll describe the actual scenario so it makes more sense: We currently have an old cisco router providing NTP services for our client network running over 900 terminals. The router is unfortunately on its last legs due to age and needs to be taken out of the network.
The plan is to configure the router's IP address as a VS on the F5 and have it do NTP without having to reconfigure the terminals individually.
The security contraint i mentioned is that the primary NTP servers behind the F5 are only reachable via tha management interfaces and are on a completely separate network, so i can't use it as a pool as it won't be reachable.
Was hoping there was a way to do a combination of NAT or rerouting that can be done on just the F5 so that I avoid having to stick NAT somewhere upstream.
I was able to configure big-ip as an NTP server taking requests through the VS forwarding to the SelfIP. And through the managment interface sync with a 'lower numbered stratum' NTP server. I didn't need this in my environment, but this may be useful.