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dp_119903
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Nov 25, 2015

Best way to limit number of "gets" from a single client

I have a website that is taking a pretty large load. The website was recently moved behind the F5. Prior to that they were doing some basic DOS protection on the server itself. They were basically...
application delivery
BIG-IP
dos
http gets
Hannes_Rapp's avatar
Hannes_Rapp
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Nov 25, 2015

Actually, I think the ASM would be the best answer here. Within the ASM module, you will find DOS protection profiles that are very easy to configure (limit by TPS increase settings are available). You do not even have to configure ASM security policy; by that I mean you can only use the DOS protection profile for now, and only get involved with building your full ASM security policy when you have more time.

 

For a LTM-module implementation, there are iRule solutions available in Code Share.