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SNAT pool persistence

Problem this snippet solves: This example shows how select the same SNAT address from the SNAT pool for a given client IP address over multiple connections without tracking the selection in memory. ...
Published Mar 18, 2015
Version 1.0
application delivery
devops
iRules
utility
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jmugica_136094
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Oct 27, 2017

"members -list" command is not available on rule init event. This irule fails to load during boot up, and therefore it will probably cause runtime failures during execution

 

https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/members.html:

 

"Note:

 

When assigning a snatpool to static variable and using "members -list" to reference it in RULE_INIT, failures will be observed at startup but won't show up in a reload afterwards. Expected behavior is to fail it in any case as "members -list" is not designed to reference a snatpool name."