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Jison111's avatar
Jison111
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Jan 07, 2025
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iRule to Force Source IP to Specific Backend Node

Hi everyone, Hope someone could help me with this kind of setup. We need an iRule to force specific IPs to connect on specific backend server of the VS. Please see flow below.   Client (1.1.1.1) w...
application delivery
BIG-IP
irule
  • akonu's avatar
    akonu
    Jan 08, 2025

    Jison111 to force the source IP to a specific Pool member you can use an Irule or an LTM Policy.

    I found some information that could help answer your questions on our myf5 portal, please click on the links below .

    K43431442: Configuring an iRule to select an alternate Pool from the Default Pool based on client IP address.
    https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K43431442

    K73862425: Creating external data groups
    https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K73862425

    https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/IP__client_addr.html

    I hope this helps.

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Jison111
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Jan 13, 2025

Thanks, everyone on you suggestions. It was solved by irule on each VIPs