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Eric_Frankenfie's avatar
Eric_Frankenfie
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Nov 07, 2016

iRule vs. Local Traffic Policy vs. Rewrite Profile

Rewrite URI and send to specific pool/node.   I have a pool with 6 members which is applied to a virtual server. Our support team would like to have the ability to test against each of the 6 memb...
application delivery
iRules
LTM
VernonWells's avatar
VernonWells
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Nov 09, 2016

You also asked about 

if
vs. 
switch
. For a multi-case conditional like you have above, you should definitely use 
switch
. In this case, it's simply because it will only evaluate 
HTTP::uri
once, rather than for each branch. In the worst case for your rule, it will evaluate 6 times.