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hoolio
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Oct 07, 2009

matchclass versus class in v10 for address comparisons?

Is there any advantage to using class match versus matchclass to evaluate an IP address against an address type datagroup? Here is a simple iRule I used to test class/matchclass for an IP aga...
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Thomas_Schaefer
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Aug 30, 2011
I was reading in the wiki under matchclass that matchclass is deprecated in version 10. Also, it said that if you do something like this: [matchclass [HTTP::uri] starts_with $::my_data_class] that $::my_data_class name will now return the name of the data class instead of a list.

 

 

I understand that using class is better but what about compatibility for upgrading. If what I read is true, I have to rewrite a large number of iRules before I come up on version 10. I am running version 9.6 now.

 

 

I would appreciate it if anyone could clarify.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Tom Schaefer