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DaveC_21078
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Jun 24, 2009

Throttle redirect

Hi,     I'm looking for a way to redirect http requests to another web server if the number of incoming http requests to the BigIP VIP exceeds a certain per second. I need to be able to n...
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hooleylist
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Jun 24, 2009
Kirk has a Codeshare example which throttles based on HTTP requests per IP address over a period of time. You could either use that as is, or modify it to suit your requirement.

 

 

HTTP request throttle

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/HTTPRequestThrottle.html

 

 

You can view the other Codeshare examples here:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/codeshare

 

 

Aaron