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Royal_131741
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Aug 16, 2013

iRule for port forwarding ssh to port 2222 on Pool

Hi, hope anybody can help 🙂 I have two LBs (activ/activ) and two Server in the Pool called RealSERVER, which are load balanced with lc. On the two Real Server i have two sshd, which are listen...
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BinaryCanary_19's avatar
BinaryCanary_19
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Aug 16, 2013

I think you should not need an irule here. One of your servers is listening on port 22, the other is on port 2222. You can have a pool where one member is on port 22 and the other member is on port 2222.

 

A standard vip should be able to loadbalance to these servers and correct the ports as needed...

 

  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Aug 16, 2013
    Agreed. I'd use a FastL4 VS as there's nothing to do at L7 for SSH traffic.