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natewood70
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Mar 11, 2015

Load Balance Friendly URL to two unfriendly URL's

Hey Everyone,

 

Still being new to the F5 (It was pretty much thrown in my lap) some basic configuration items still go over my head.

 

I was wondering if it would be possible to create an iRule to load balance 1 friendly URL between 2 pool members.

 

Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is sending traffic to http://myfriendlyurl.com to be load balanced between two unfriendly URL's that are in the same pool on different pool members such as http://myunfriendlyurl1.com and http://myunfriendlyurl2.com.

 

I understand that I can redirect to a specific pool when the HTTP request for http://myfriendlyurl.com is sent, but how would I accomplish load balancing to the two specific unfriendly URL's on the seperate servers?

 

Thanks for the help!

 

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  • Henrik_Gyllkran's avatar
    Henrik_Gyllkran
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    Mar 25, 2015

    Hi Nate,

     

    That is strange, I made a test in my lab and it works fine for me. Would you mind listing the current configuration? Also, a tcpdump serverside could be really useful, are you familiar with tcpdump?

     

    Regards

     

    //Henrik

     

  • natewood70's avatar
    natewood70
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    Mar 26, 2015

    Hi Everyone,

     

    Thanks for all of your assistance. As explained in my response to Henrik I was able to work through this with my former senior engineer who showed me that I was over complicating what I needed to do.

     

    I really appreciate everyones time, and if you would like to know more specifics about the solution outside of what I explained to Henrik, please let me know.

     

    Thanks again.