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Manu_Nair
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Feb 22, 2022

iRule to Forward Traffic Based on URL Name

Hi, I am in a situation where we have shortage of IP address and am looking for an alternative way to forward traffic to pools based on URL. I am not really good with iRule hence looking for assista...
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  • neeeewbie's avatar
    neeeewbie
    Feb 23, 2022

    Hi 

    below irule will help

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K27803480

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
      if { ([string tolower [HTTP::host]] eq "host1") {
            pool pool1
        } elseif { ([string tolower [HTTP::host]] eq "host2")  {
            pool pool2
        }
    }

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Seçkin
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Feb 23, 2022

Hello,

For this purpose, i would go for LTM Policy over irule. Its very easy to implement and also you dont need to know programming language to do it.

Regards

Seçkin

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    Manu_Nair
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    Feb 23, 2022

    Thanks for the reply Seckin, I am new this Policy type as well, But i did not what parameter to keep, but looks i got few suggestions to use Policy. I will try it out.