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epaalx
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Sep 15, 2011

Wishing to use F5 LTM as HTTP NAT

I have a requirement to bypass normal security measures for servers seeking license and/or updates. Below is the simplified version of network. As per security requirements, Router R1 will onl...
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nitass
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Sep 16, 2011
My issue is - as far as I know, VS's iRule can only select from existing pools composed of static members which I can't possibly know before the HTTP Requests arrives - I can't create a pool dynamically (although, I am nor sure how LB::select actually works).

 

u may use RESOLV::lookup to do name resolution on-the-fly and use node command to send traffic to the destination.

 

RESOLV::lookup

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.resolv__lookup.ashx

 

 

cheer!