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no-idea-what-im's avatar
no-idea-what-im
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Jul 02, 2014

Exponential backoff iRule and True-Client-IP HTTP header

Hi,   I am working on using the exponential backoff iRule (https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.POST-Request-Exponential-Backoff.ashx) to help with some suspicious login attempts.   The issue I ...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Jul 03, 2014

It'd be as simple as doing this at the top of the HTTP_REQUEST event:

set session_id "[IP::remote_addr]:[TCP::remote_port]"    

set state_table "[virtual name]-exp-backoff-state"