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Vincent_96516
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Jan 30, 2012

Message based load balancing for no standard message format

Hi, all.   We have a message based load balancing requirement very similar to what is described in the following white paper:   http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/message-based-load-balancing-w...
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Jan 31, 2012
Ian, thanks for the answer.

 

I have good knowledge about load balancing, but new to F5 and iRule. Some more questions:

 

(1) Do I need to handle USER_REQUEST and USER_RESPONSE? Or they will be handled by mblb framework? I think TCP::notify is required by mblb as well, right?

 

(2) Is the code in the post (http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=1166991) a good example to start with?

 

(3) Our messages are with variable length and could be in multiple packets (maximun size about 2 KB). I guess I will just need to keep collecting if I didn't get all packets when handling CLIENT_DATA and SERVER_DATA, any example for better performance?

 

 

Vincent