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PG0581
Cirrus
CirrusiRule to load balance FDQNs
I'm wondering if it's possible to have an iRule load balance (round-robin) between FQDNs. Here's the idea: You would have a virtual server with no pool and use an iRule to redirect to a couple FQD...
jaikumar_f5
Noctilucent
NoctilucentThis is a weird requirement 🙂 What exactly are you trying to achieve with this. Just trying to understand the requirement/criteria here.
Round robin inside the Irule is not possible as far I know, but with the rand operator you'll get random numbers. So this will drive certain users to abc & others to def
when HTTP_REQUEST {
set random [expr int(rand()*100)]
if { $random < "50" } {
HTTP::redirect "https://www.abc.com"
} else {
HTTP::redirect "https://www.def.com"
}
}