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Unbind your LDAP servers with iRules

LDAP is one of the most widely used authentication protocols around today. There are plenty of others, but LDAP is undeniably one of the big ones. It comes as no surprise then that we often hear diff...
Published Oct 09, 2008
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I have a similar issue where the client is connecting to a VIP on the F5, which is directed to the active of two servers. There are two issues I'm trying to fix, one is the client is binding on each request, I want to eat those on the F5 so there is just one or two to each server. The other, I want to figure out how to fail over, and do the rebind automatically. Currently the client keeps sending requests to the new server, and getting hundreds of RST responses.

 

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