Load Balancing a pool member listening to different ports

Hi,

A pool member can only listen on a port or on any port.

There are two solutions.

Create this:

Pool_any {

member 1 { 10.1.20.18:0 }

member 2 { 10.1.20.19:0 }

member 3 { 10.1.20.20:0 }

}

Create 3 virtual servers, vs_1 with port 2375 and disable port translation (advanced configuration mode), vs_2 with port 2376 and port translation disabled, vs_3 with port 2377 and port translation disabled and attach the pool to all 3 virtual servers.

Or create them all as poolmembers:

Pool_Xo {

member 1 { 10.1.20.18:2375 }

member 2 { 10.1.20.19:2375 }

member 3 { 10.1.20.20:2375 }

member 4 { 10.1.20.18:2376 }

member 5 { 10.1.20.19:2376 }

member 6 { 10.1.20.20:2376 }

member 7 { 10.1.20.18:2377 }

member 8 { 10.1.20.19:2377 }

member 9 { 10.1.20.20:2377 }

}

Cheers,

Kees

You should be able to define the pool with three members, all using the same node IP address but different ports. (The monitor is not necessary. I added it during my testing.) For example:

ltm pool mixed_port_pool {
    members {
        10.1.20.18:2375 {
            address 10.1.20.18
            session monitor-enabled
            state up
        }
        10.1.20.18:2376 {
            address 10.1.20.18
            session monitor-enabled
            state up
        }
        10.1.20.18:2377 {
            address 10.1.20.18
            session monitor-enabled
            state up
        }
    }
    monitor http 
}

You will almost certainly be limited on the load balancing method you can use with such a pool though. Round robin will certainly work and is what I tested with. But I'm suspicious of anything node-based or dynamic since there is only 1 node involved.