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Optimizing large lookup tables
I have several customers requesting various functionality such as selective rate limiting, access filtering, geo load balancing, etc, all of which would require very large reference tables (4000+ rows...
Nope, I was not referring to using the RULE_INIT event to initialize the array. What I was referring to do was to create a seperate VIP/iRule that would be then used to manage the array by some external device/program.
This seperate VIP/iRule would serve the sole purpose of managing the array. So, you would want to come up with a protocol for doing that. Let's say we use HTTP, so the following "PUT " request would actually add the to the array. "GET " could be used to test if was in the array.
You could come up with all sorts of commands to access/manage the array from the external program. The biggest challenge with this approach is having the external program know when it needs to initialize the array. There are a number of ways I can think of to do that, but I'll leave it up to you to discover one.
