http throttle BEFORE reverse proxy/ NAT?

Hi PDS,

 

 

I believe that an iRule like this is what you are asking for: http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTPRequestThrottle.ashx

 

 

To answer your question about how the limiting would interact with a reverse proxy... It would depend on your setup. If you have multiple users that are NAT'ed into a single IP Address then you would need to engage something like a OneConnect profile to insure that each TCP Connection was treated as an individual user, so that subsequent requests would not get throttled (treating new users as requests as requests from an "existing" user). If you did that then it would limit the behavior of the iRule to that TCP Connect / Individual Client.

 

 

Hope this helps.