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Angelo_Iannaril
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Feb 04, 2007

authenticated IP's and session tables

We have an iRule that needs to keep track of authenticated IP addresses across several event clauses within the iRule (as an extra security check). We're using the universal session table to achieve t...
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unRuleY_95363
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Mar 05, 2007
Since you are using an IP address, you could actually use "source_addr" as the key to the session table. The session table uses the same keying system as the persist table. So, using the "source_addr" key type would actually be more efficient than "universal" because the IP address wouldn't get converted to string and then hashed. It would just be hashed using an IP address hash algorithm instead of of a string hash algorithm.

 

 

HTH.