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Gerardo_Fuentes's avatar
Gerardo_Fuentes
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Jan 14, 2019

Internal vs External request tagging

I have two VIPs, one for routing external requests, one for internal. I need to merge their downstream servers into single server. But to identify if the request is for internal or external in the do...
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CharlesCS's avatar
CharlesCS
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Jan 14, 2019

You can add a header or cookie in several ways. Depending on your BIG-IP software version, you may be able to customize an HTTP profile with the "Request Header Insert" option, or insert a cookie or header in an LTM Traffic Policy, or use an iRule to do the same thing.

 

You're on your own when configuring the single downstream server, since it'll depend on which of the above options you chose.