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Ravi_75530
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Feb 22, 2013

Send same request across multiple pools

Hi,   We are using BIGIP for internal load balancing. I was wondering is it possible to configure BIG IP so that same request will be sent to two pools , Let's say Pool A( Live pool) and Pool B( T...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 04, 2018

Jaz,

 

It's really not supported to "multi-cast" requests to multiple targets. You're setting up a TCP connection to a backend server (especially for HTTP traffic), so you'd need BIG-IP to establish two separate TCP connections, and then choose which response to send back to the client. An alternative might be to use sideband connections to send the traffic to the servers out-of-band.

 

Ref: https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SIDEBAND.ashx