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JosephT
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Mar 13, 2009

Back to basics - redirect to a virtual server

We're working on an irule to send connections to another virtual server based on a match on the X-forwarded header. The reason for this is so we can rate-limit the number of connections (by using Con...
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hoolio
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Mar 16, 2009
If you can't upgrade to 9.4.0+, you should be able to use a loopback plug on two LTM switch ports and then specify a VIP as another VIP's pool member. Here are a few related posts where at least one person said they were able to get it working:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&view=topic&forumid=5&postid=46384643

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=1245312475

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=1321813218

 

 

If you do get this working, can you post a sample configuration for future reference?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Aaron