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sp1at_86630
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Mar 21, 2009

rule to replace vip ip with pool member

Hi All,   How do i rewite the stream on an incomming request to replace the vip address with the ip of the pool member selected?     here is what i think the rule should look like, is ...
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Mar 24, 2009
In that case, I think you'll work (from a connectivity standpoint) without any issues. Ideally setup the oracle client to point to the virtual server address in tnsnames.ora as opposed to the real server address. The BigIP is a NAT device, so as the traffic flows through the BigIP it'll do destination address translation back to the selected server.

 

 

Now for the big caveat: if you're looking to load balance read/write operations be super careful - this is an extremely tricky problem to solve. If you're doing read only, you'll likely be OK.

 

 

-Matt