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Tosin_Omojola
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Jul 03, 2015

REQUEST-BASED LOAD BALANCING USING IRULE

Hi, I don't know if the title is appropriate but, this is the issue I have.   I have a mobile application to be load-balanced. However, the nature of the application is such that it connects to th...
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VernonWells
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Jul 03, 2015

Is it the case that the client submits an HTTP Request, and something in the Request (either a header or something in the body) indicates to which pool the Request should be proxied? If that is the case, then an iRule can definitely do that. If you are running 11.4.0 or higher, and depending on what is being matched, a Local Traffic Policy may also be able to do so:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/000/sol15085.html

 

On what are you wishing to match?