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EHost
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Nov 15, 2019

iRULE for limiting user sessions

I'm looking to create an iRule that limits the amount of unique user sessions.   So far I have only been able to limit connections over all however, I'd like to allow say 500 users and as many co...
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boneyard's avatar
boneyard
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Nov 16, 2019

this depends a lot on what you see as a session and what a big-ip can recognize as a session.

 

can you share something about the type of traffic and if there is authentication involved or such?

 

only LTM or ASM, APM also?

 

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EHost
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Nov 18, 2019

It would be LTM only.

 

I was thinking of tracking users IP addresses, the traffic is http traffic that is then load balanced to some webservers.

 

No authentication takes place on the F5s at all.