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Supahoopsa_8892
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Jun 10, 2011

IRule not working - sytnax error or something else?

I have tried writing my first iRule to check the url of my site and then depending on which site the user is attempting to access, I then check a list of approved IP addresses.       If t...
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hoolio
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Jun 10, 2011
If you're on 9.4.4 or higher you should remove the $:: prefix from the datagroup name. It will demote the iRule from CMP in any version, but won't work at all to access the datagroup in v10+:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/CMPCompatibility.html

 

 

For 10.x you should also change from matchclass to the class match command for better efficiency:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/class

 

 

Aaron