Re: [m0n0wall] Traffic Redirecting?

From:	A dot L dot M dot Buxey at lboro dot ac dot uk
To:	Josh Simoneau <jsimoneau at lmtcs dot com>
Cc:	m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject:	Re: [m0n0wall] Traffic Redirecting?
Date:	Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:10:41 +0000

Hi,

> We have a web server at, say, 100.100.100.50 that we want to take down
> for maintenance. During this time I want traffic that was destined for
> this web server to be redirected to another webserver on the same
> subnet, say 100.100.100.60. Is there any capabilities in m0n0wall that
> would allow this to happen? It's not a classic NAT function I wouldn't
> think since I'm not translating between subnets, but the traffic *IS*
> going through the m0n0wall so I figure it might have a way to pipe it
> someplace.

why not just add that address to the working server as a subinterface?
then it takes all the calls for that IP

alan