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Charles_Stalyon
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Apr 22, 2008

New guy - help please!

I currently have a 1500 series LTM demo from F5. I have a little working knowledge of the device, but I am attempting to use the LTM as a traffic cop and have no idea how to use an iRule. I would like...
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hoolio
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Apr 22, 2008
Hi there,

 

 

The BIG-IP doesn't parse SMB traffic natively, so to determine the requested share name, you'd need to collect the TCP payload in the request, parse the share and then select the pool based on it. You can use the TCP::collect (Click here) command to collect the payload. The wiki page for TCP::collect has an example to get you started.

 

 

SMB shares should be accessible on TCP port 445. Here's one place you can get more info on the "protocol" (Click here).

 

 

Aaron