Must the iRule always select a pool?

Hey,

 

 

In my iRule I plan to use two pools, pool_bots and pool_default. Bot and crawler traffic will be sent to pool_bots and pool_default wil be used for all other traffic.

 

So just to be clear can I put this iRule on a virtual server that is pointing towards pool_default so I dont have to put in the line "pool pool_default" in the switch statment code?

 

Im just not 100% on the mechanics of the F5 Im afriad.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Neil

 

 

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

set hostname [string tolower [HTTP::host]]

 

set uri [string tolower [HTTP::uri]]

 

if { [matchclass [string tolower [HTTP::header User-Agent]] contains $::bots] } {

 

pool pool_bots}

 

else {

 

 

switch [whereis [IP::client_addr]] {

 

 

"IE" {

 

if {$hostname eq "www.example.com" and not $uri starts_with "/ireland"} {

 

HTTP::redirect http://www.example.com/ireland/[HTTP::uri] } }

 

 

"GB" {

 

if {$hostname eq "www.example.com" and not $uri starts_with "/ireland" } {

 

HTTP::redirect http://www.example.co.uk/[HTTP::uri]

 

}

 

}

 

default {

 

if {$hostname eq "www.example.com" and not $uri starts_with "/ireland" } {

 

HTTP::redirect http://www.example.com/region-selectpage}

 

}

 

}

 

}