iRule: effect of updating subtable lifetime

is this expected behavior?

i think it is expected but i do not remember where i got it. let me check if i can find. :-)

Can you show us your testing code?

i cannot find document where i read. anyway, yes i believe it is expected behavior. the lifetime is counted from when entry is added into table.

// config

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tmsh list ltm rule qux
ltm rule qux {
    when HTTP_REQUEST {
  set cmd [string map {/ " "} [HTTP::path]]
  log local0. "$cmd = [eval $cmd]"
  HTTP::respond 200
}
}

// test

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tail -f /var/log/ltm
Aug 16 03:35:50 ve11a info tmm[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table set -subtable test abc 123 indef 300 = 123
Aug 16 03:36:06 ve11a info tmm1[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table lifetime -subtable test -remaining abc = 284
Aug 16 03:36:12 ve11a info tmm[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table lifetime -subtable test abc 300 = 300
Aug 16 03:36:17 ve11a info tmm1[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table lifetime -subtable test -remaining abc = 273
Aug 16 03:36:24 ve11a info tmm[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table lifetime -subtable test abc 300 = 300
Aug 16 03:36:26 ve11a info tmm1[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table lifetime -subtable test -remaining abc = 264
Aug 16 03:36:31 ve11a info tmm[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table lifetime -subtable test abc 600 = 600
Aug 16 03:36:33 ve11a info tmm1[29362]: Rule /Common/qux :  table lifetime -subtable test -remaining abc = 557

thanks, but is that irule fully correct? cant really match the output with the irule.

but is that irule fully correct? cant really match the output with the irule.

the irule is used to execute command (table command in this case). yes, the log is generated by the irule.

thank you nitass, was a little lazy and not that sharp yesterday, i now see how it functions, pretty useful.