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f5rocks_86658
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Sep 02, 2015

Load balancing of tcp data stream

We have one requirement of load balancing tcp data and not the tcp connection. It's GDS data for real time dynamic payment transactions. There could around 100 messages in 1 tcp connection. How to lo...
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DevBabu's avatar
DevBabu
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Sep 02, 2015

In my opinion you need to use an iRule to collect tcp payload and grab messages from the payload and route data based on your requirement.

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

For example,

when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
  TCP::collect 15
}
when CLIENT_DATA {
  if { [TCP::payload 15] contains "XYZ" } {
     pool xyz_servers
  } else {
     pool web_servers
 }
 TCP::release
}