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Nimbostratusbalance with 302 to a pool
Hello,
coming from Cisco ACE to F5 BigIP.
On ACE, I could have a VIP, a pool and then when a client connects I could send back a 302 to the client, selecting the pool-member with least-connections. t...
Infrastructur11Nimbostratus
NimbostratusHej, thanks for your reply. No, the destination will not understand the x-forward header.
So what happens in an ACE module is, you call 1.1.1.1 behind 1.1.1.1 you have a pool with server 2.2.2.2, 3.3.3.3 and 4.4.4.4
when client connects to 1.1.1.1, the LB checks this pool for the server with the least connections and sends a 302 with that server IP back to the client. the client understands the 302 and directly connects to the server - not through the LB. (and this way it is NOT asymetric) This is a very efficient way to provide a) the original client-IP and b) do not sent heavy traffic-load through the LB. and still you have redundancy and load-sharing.
this must be possible with F5 as well?
