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wrightnz_34708
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Sep 02, 2010

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Hi folks     Couldn't find an appropriate forum name to pose this question ... here goes anyway     Background:   We occasionally have rouge web crawlers generating large amounts of tra...
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Oct 07, 2010
Hi,

 

 

Sure, you could do this with an iRule on LTM. If you're on 10.x, you can use the table command to save this info in a session table. For 9.x, you can use a global array.

 

 

You can check the iRule codeshare and table wik page for more info.

 

 

Codeshare

 

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

 

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

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/Version_9_Throttle_on_Requests_Per_Second.html

 

 

Table command info

 

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

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=2375

 

 

Aaron