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Christofer_Tib1
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Apr 26, 2006

iRule with several pools bring down whole VS

Hi.   I have a VS with a iRule on it that sends the traffic based on the host header to different pools.   The problem I'm having now is that if one of these pools goes down then all Wide-IPs (6...
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Colin_Walker_12
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Apr 26, 2006
I suppose my first question would be, would you perhaps be better off by relegating this to the Wide-IP level, rather than an iRule?

 

 

If you want test2.test.com to go to a certain pool, and test1.test.com to go to a different pool, then why not create seperate Wide-IPs and VIPs? This way you'd be able to assign the desired pool to each VIP, and wouldn't have this kind of confusion.

 

 

 

Colin