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bigiptechie_982
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Apr 16, 2012

load balance between servers based on the Geographical location

Hello All, I have the following case I have two F5 LTM Active/Standby and many virtual servers, one of the virtual servers with one pool and six pool members, i want to load balance between servers based on the Geographical location of the client’s country, Could you please let me know if that is possible and how? Thank you,
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  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Apr 16, 2012
    bigiptechie,

     

     

    I think an iRule will work for you here. I remembered there was a "20 lines or less" entry which had source Country information using "whereis" . So I've found the wiki for you to see if this can get you started:

     

     

    https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.whereis.ashx

     

     

    Good look,

     

    N
  • bigiptechie_982's avatar
    bigiptechie_982
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    Apr 16, 2012
    Thanks Nathan

     

     

    I found this dev link and it helped me a lot.

     

     

    https://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1082330/New-Geolocation-Capabilities-in-v101.aspx