iRules Recipe 3: Pool and SNAT Selection by Host Header Value
The Problem
You manage a number of web sites, and they are spread across servers in several different pools. You want to use a single public IP for all of these, so you need to make a pool selecti...
Updated Jun 06, 2023
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For a given incoming request, you can either redirect or perform pool selection, but not both. That's because a redirect is a direct response from the BIG-IP platform to the client, and there is only a client flow, whereas pool selection specifies the destination for the server-side flow.