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Jon_Strabala_46
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Jul 31, 2012

How can I send UDP or TCP messages to a virtual server and inspect and drop every packet

How can I send 20 (or 300) UDP or TCP messages a second into to a dedicated virtual server and have iRULES inspect and drop every packet.     Basically I have a stream of information like the fo...
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hooleylist
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Jul 31, 2012
Hi Jon,

 

 

You could use a UDP VS with a custom UDP profile that has Datagram LB enabled. Every packet that is sent to the virtual server should then trigger CLIENT_ACCEPTED where you can access the payload using UDP::payload. Here are a couple of related links:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.udp__payload.ashx

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.CLIENT_ACCEPTED.ashx

 

 

Aaron