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NimbostratusCustom connection rate limit per ip list or per http header Irule
Hello .
I am new to F5 and still learning so i need you help with this task my manager gave me .
As i understand there is a way to customise connection rate limit on VIP . So my task is to protect web application from http request flood . I have whitelist ip range and I am sure that from it there will be no flood. Also i have http requests from AWS which has custom http header and this reqeust also are clean . So i need to create Irule to set connection rate limit for this conditions for example 1000, and if none of this conditions are true , then connection rate limit must be 100.
I have seen similar example in this lab . But i dont know how to edit this rule for my purpose.
https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/irules/html/class2/module1/lab2.html
Can you help me to create this Irule ?
P.S My web application now has approximately 800 conn/s . I know that in Irule i need to use Table command. How much memory will it take to handle such traffic?
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- Nikoolayy1
MVP
You may see my irule as a base reference:
For calculating how much memory it will take there is no way for that that I know of but even when I used the table command I didn't have any issues withe F5 memory and usually the F5 irules impact the CPU the most so there is a calculator for that:
https://community.f5.com/t5/crowdsrc/irules-runtime-calculator-spreadsheet-generator/ta-p/285478
