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Techgeeeg_28888
Nimbostratus
Dec 07, 2013Auto last hop in Virtual Server Config
Hi Everyone,
I want my Virtual server to redirect the incoming user connections to a pool of servers with apology message in case if all the actual members in the load balancing pool are down. Under ...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
Dec 07, 2013From the support site:
Auto Last Hop is a setting that allows the BIG-IP system to track the source MAC address of incoming connections and return traffic from pools to the source MAC address, regardless of the routing table.
See: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/800/sol13876.html?sr=33722390
So this has to do with return routing through an upstream device. To do what you're asking for, your best bet is probably an iRule. Here's an example.
when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
set default_pool [LB::server pool]
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [active_members $default_pool] < 1 } {
pool sorry_server_pool
}
}
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