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madeye_80512
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May 23, 2011

Limit traffic per client ip?

Hi, I'm searching for a way to limit the bandwidth per user. I found that rateclass gives me an "over all" limit on a VS, but still a single client can grab all bandwidth and let other users starve. S...
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madeye_80512
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Mar 26, 2012
Hi Omar,

 

like I wrote, I wasn't able to get it working as intended.

 

I had some discussion with a F5 presales person afterwards who told me that it would work if you'd dynamically create a rate class per connection and tear it down afterwards.

 

 

Unfortunately he wasn't able to enlighten me about the impact on the loadbalancer (how computationally intensive this would be in real world) and I didn't have the time to do a full test in the lab.

 

 

Sorry

 

Madeye