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Robert_Landrito
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Aug 04, 2009

browser-handled site failover

Greetings,     I'm trying to find a way to do a seamless site failover that may or may not involve GTM techniques. The current setup is:     -site 1, ltm 9.4.5   -site ...
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Hamish's avatar
Hamish
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Jan 20, 2012
Basically, its not going to work very well... This is why load balancers came along in the first place many years ago (before irules etc). It was an easy way to control the balance of traffic (better than RR dns because its harder to fake), and more importantly it provides for availability.

 

 

Now if you need 2 ip addresses... You need a smart dns... That would be in the bigip world a GTM. But you could fake it with DDNS and a custom alert on your LTM ( When the pool goes down remove the dns record. When it comes up, add it back in)

 

 

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