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iNTERCELL_GROUP
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Mar 23, 2011

2 Diff VIPS with different Pools, but Pool Members with the same IP and Port

Hi Guys!     I am new to these forums and very excited to join and hope to contribute if I can. I only have been working with F5 LTMs and GTM's for the past 5 yrs but on and off. I am pretty...
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Chris_Miller
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Mar 23, 2011
Welcome! It's great to hear you're looking forward to contributing.

 

 

IIS is actually doing the hard work here. LTM will send the requests to the same pool members which will then return the necessary content. This is typically done by reading the "host header."

 

 

When a user hits http://something1.domain.com, their host header would be "something1.domain.com." IIS reads this and sends it to the correct "site."

 

 

Here's a decent Microsoft overview on how this works - it's for IIS 6.0 but the same logic applies in 7.

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/e7a21b1f-ab13-47f2-8c61-b09cf14a7cb3.mspx?mfr=true