Queue traffic after session rate limit reached

Hey Carl,

 

 

Queueing connections doesn't seem to be practical:

 

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=2149321872

 

 

Is it possible to write an iRule that has a wait time of 25 seconds before proceeding to the next step?

 

 

Spark: No, it's not possible to do this. iRule execution is single-threaded, so if you did somehow pause execution (like run a tight wait-loop as someone suggested), then you would be holding up all other packet processing. The multiple watchdogs on the LTM would notice this, and take appropriate action (restart tmm, or failover, or reboot, or some combination thereof). So you don't want to do that. Could you explain what you're really wanting to do? Perhaps we can find some different way of accomplishing it.

 

 

 

 

Perhaps you could use a rate class or use javascript to instruct the client to re-request after x number of seconds without keeping the connection to the VIP open?

 

 

Anyone have other suggestions?

 

 

Aaron