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AlexJ's avatar
AlexJ
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Feb 08, 2017

Universal persistence using header values for multiple client IPs.

Hello all,   I require universal persistence based upon a XFF header value, but for any source IP. The scenario is that an initial client connection hits the F5 and is load balanced to node A (the...
application delivery
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irules
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Kai_Wilke
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Feb 08, 2017

Hi ajohnson,

this setup will be somewhat complicated then and requires other/additional coding techniques than using 

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to team the instances.

What is the reason to forward the backend connection to your F5 if the DST_IP is always the orginating SRC_IP? It would be much easier if the service on 1.2.3.4:994 will always directly connect to 1.2.3.4:499 (aka. 127.0.0.1:499) and the service on 1.2.3.5:994 will always request to 1.2.3.5:499 (aka. 127.0.0.1:499 too)...

Beside of that, it would be good to know how your iRule/LTM Policy configuration selects the different backend pools based on the incomming HTTP requests?

Cheers, Kai