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Vince_Beltz_959
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Feb 18, 2010

Hold Connection / No Pool

Got a proposal from one of our devs this AM, who wants to set up the following scenario on an LTM.     He proposes a group of clients, all trying almost constantly to connect with a VIP. Th...
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The_Bhattman
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Feb 18, 2010
Hi Vince,

 

That's an interesting scenerio.

 

 

Have you looked at throttling

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/HTTPRequestThrottle.html

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/HTTP_throttle_alternative.html

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&view=topic&postid=11484

 

 

I think from here you could Frankenstein together an iRule that will work for you.

 

 

I hope this helps

 

Bhattman