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Lou_125071
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusLoad balance to specific pool by reading the X-Forwarded-For IP address
I've been asked if we can send specific client to a different pool based on the X-Forwarded-For IP address. I suspect this must be done via an IRule. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
nitass
Employee
Employeeyou can retrieve x-forwarded-for header value by using HTTP::header command and then you can do whatever you want e.g. send to specific node (node command) or pool (pool command), etc.
HTTP::header
">https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__header.ashx" target="_blank">">https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__header.ashx
Lou_125071Nimbostratus
NimbostratusThanks this worked by just ORing the other IP addresses. I was going to try and do it with a data group list which was why I was having trouble getting it to work. I'll probably also add the real client IP in case the IP comes in not in the X-Forwarded-For.
Thanks again for the help
