Friday, August 14, 2020

Guidance on Extreme switch capabilities?

TL;DR: Can Extreme X460G2-48p-10G4 switches NAT?

Hopefully someone can chime in on this.. I have a client whose internally developed application has the Exchange server address for notification emails hardcoded. It is Exchange 2010, and we are about to kill the mailserver (Exchange 2016 is running in its place). They have no way to recode the application; it will be replaced soon and can't justify the developer hours to do it. So I'd like to implement destination NAT on the local gateway to redirect unauthenticated SMTP traffic sent to the Exchange 2010 environment to the Exchange 2016 environment, where it can use an IP-restricted SMTP relay.

They are using Extreme X460G2-48p-10G4 switches and although these switches are configured as the local gateway for each network segment, they are not currently NATing traffic (that's handled by the SDWAN on the perimeter). Local admin says there is no way to configure NAT on these switches. They will not grant me access to the switches to poke around, and I'm not seeing the documentation online to help me confirm this.



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