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Heidi_35827
Nimbostratus
Aug 02, 2012cURL to the VIP, can we do that?
We have a basic port 80 VIP. Very simple. VIP is on port 80, 2 real servers behind it on port 8084.
My customer has some DOS-based devices that need to submit info to this VIP via cURL, ...
richard_77048
Nimbostratus
Aug 02, 2012It sounds like you were sniffing traffic on the BigIP. Did you try sniffing traffic on the server? Does the traffic look any different.
Is there anything showing up in /var/log/ltm on the BigIP?
Try using an irule to log the request headers and compare the curl requests and requests coming through the browser.
Finally, I would try making the request from the DOS-based device using telnet (assuming it's available to you) and do all the same testing.
I test VIPs using wget/curl and telnet/netcat and haven't run into any issues like you are describing.
HTH
Richard
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