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jminfused
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Feb 03, 2016

How do I configure a simple TCP proxy that can rewrite SQL from a client to a MySQL server?

I would like to know how to configure a Virtual Server on the F5 BigIP (version 11.5) that would do nothing more than proxy TCP connections to a MySQL server, with the ability to match and rewrite sp...
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Kai_Wilke
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Feb 04, 2016

Hi Jminfused,

 

as Ian has already mentioned, it would be a tough challenge to build an MySQL protocol parser/rewrite module using iRules.

 

IMHO it would be far easier to use one of the available MySQL proxy solutions to solve your current "on the wire rewrite" requirements. Our developers for an example had recently investigated into the "ProxySQL" project and they where really impressed...

 

http://www.proxysql.com/

 

http://de.slideshare.net/renecannao/proxysql-high-performance-and-ha-proxy-for-mysql

 

Cheers, Kai