Limiting connections based on data group

Hi Kenny,

I think Hamish was suggesting that you use a single address type datagroup and then set a value to return if the client IP matches a particular host or network. Here is an example from the bigip.conf:

class conn_limit_class {
   {
      host 1.1.1.1 { "cust1" }
      network 2.2.2.0/24 { "cust1 }
      network 3.3.3.0/24 { "cust2" }
      network 4.4.5.0/24 { "cust2" }
   }
}

You could then use a class function to query the class and get the customer group name for that particular client. You could use the table command to track the number of active connections per customer group. You could store the connection limit for each customer group in a separate datagroup or hardcode it in an array in the iRule.

Aaron