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RADIUS Load Balancing with iRules

What is RADIUS? “Remote Authentication Dial In User Service” or RADIUS is a very mature and widely implemented protocol for exchanging ”Triple A” or “Authentication, Authorization and Accounting” ...
Published Apr 04, 2008
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In summary, ignore the above. Use 'performance (layer 4) and then add a proper health check (the standard UDP health check is crap). Instructions for a real health check at:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/ExternalMonitor.html

 

regards,

 

Dave

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