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Alan_Sha
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Jul 09, 2008

Send transaction to all the members of a pool

Is it possible to send a TCP transaction to all the members of a pool using iRule? I read an older post that for HTTP traffic, this is possible with the HTTP::retry. But, I couldn't find anything like...
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Alan_Sha
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Jul 09, 2008
Hi, Aaron,

 

 

I don't mind if the TCP request is sent to multiple destinations in serial. I just don't know whether that is feasible in the iRule, and how.

 

 

What we are trying to do is send the incoming transaction to an application for safekeeping after forwarding it to the real destination. I have been looking into the clone pool function. But, what I have read from this forum and user manuals indicates that the destination of a clone pool must be some kind of IDS system, which doesn't work in my case as the application is only designed to listen to a specific port for incoming TCP transaction. The transaction forwarded to a clone pool apparently does not target any port, therefore, the application is unable to capture any cloning traffic from the Big IP. I think this is different from connection mirror, which is used for maintaining the connection in case of failover.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Alan