Forum Discussion

Vishnu_Palanis1's avatar
Vishnu_Palanis1
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
May 09, 2008

Not accept connection for pool if no members are active

How do I tell F5 not to accept connections for a certain pool (or a virtual server) if none of the nodes in the pool are active?     Is this just a configuration or do I have to write an i...
application delivery
dev
devops
iRules
Krzysztof_Kozlo's avatar
Krzysztof_Kozlo
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
May 14, 2008
If you want to simply ignore connections to downed servers, and don't need any of the more advanced features of the TCP profile, you can use the fastL4 profile. It will ignore SYN packets when all the back-end servers are down.