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kckirwan_49724
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May 30, 2013

Help with iRule to direct traffic to specific pool based on incoming port

I have a rule that is intended to redirect smtp traffic to specific pools based upon the port number for the incoming connection. All of the displays in that are logged to ltm log indicate that the ...
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Kevin_Davies_40
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Jun 13, 2013
Just an final note for iRule learners....

 

 

The SERVER_CONNECTED event means your pool member has already been selected and the connection has been opened to the member (aka the server). So it is too late to be using the pool command at this point in the processing. The pool command should be used in the client side processing before the LB_SELECTED event is triggered. Usually CLIENT_ACCEPTED (layer 4) or HTTP_REQUEST (layer 7) events as Kevin suggested above. I thought an explanation might be useful.