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besogon_9363
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Aug 13, 2013

How do you build an irule to drop connection (without completing the handshake)

We are using multiple A records and trying to force clients to switch to the second IP when no pool members are available without completing the 3-way handshake. It seems the only way to force the cl...
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Arie
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Aug 13, 2013

Have you tried putting a "reject" (or "drop") in the "CLIENT_ACCEPTED" event? That's probably the earliest in the event stack that you'd be able to do anything.