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bibilthaysose
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Jun 08, 2022

How many layers is too many layers of Virtual Servers?

I am trying to set up a multi-layered proxy in an F5 LTM.  Layer 1 policy forwards requests to layer 2 virtual servers based on the first segment of the path, layer 2 policy then does more intensive ...
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Gym
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Surely the 2nd layer itself could return a 404 as its default action, so you wouldn't need a 3rd layer?

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bibilthaysose
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Jun 13, 2022

Hi Gym,

Yea, in short you're right, but the issue I was having was that I couldn't figure out how to determine in an iRule whether a valid pool had been selected (or a redirect response been sent) by one of the endpoint policies.  What I ended up doing was adding the following condition to the iRule:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  set selected_pool [lindex [LB::server] 0]
  if { [HTTP::has_responded] } { return }
  if { $selected_pool ends_with "default_pool" } {
    HTTP::respond 404 -version auto content [ifile get custom_404.html] noserver
  }
}

 

where the "default_pool" is the default pool of the VS.

Is that what you mean by "default action"?  Or is there some simpler way to do this?

Thanks,
Greg