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Nimbostratus

Aug 13, 2015

Equivalent iRules have different behavior

Hello, I have configured the following iRule on a Virtual Edition BigIP F5: when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {snat [clientside {IP::local_addr}]} and it works as expected - It translates the sourc...

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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

Vernon_97235
Aug 13, 2015
It loads correctly for me (when using
tmsh edit ltm rule foo
and pasting into
vi
under 11.6.0). I suspect this may be a character insertion issue. If, for example, you paste in Windows-style newlines at the end (which will naturally be invisible to you), the iRule parser will not interpret the newlines in the way you expect. Indeed, based on the error, it appears to be compressing the two statements together. Incidentally, the space after the variable name is required.

VernonWells

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It loads correctly for me (when using

tmsh edit ltm rule foo

and pasting into

vi

under 11.6.0). I suspect this may be a character insertion issue. If, for example, you paste in Windows-style newlines at the end (which will naturally be invisible to you), the iRule parser will not interpret the newlines in the way you expect. Indeed, based on the error, it appears to be compressing the two statements together. Incidentally, the space after the variable name is required.