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kimjim_51067
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Mar 20, 2012

I need to create an irule that will reject a specified percnetage of traffic.

Can some one help me in creating an irule that will reject percentage (ex- 50%) of the traffic .   I need this because when there is a heavy traffic my systems are unable to handle ,so i want to a...
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tdk_51797
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Mar 26, 2012
For the 50% case, you could optimise the rule as follows:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

set flag 0

 

Check the path

 

if { [HTTP::path] eq "/build/apps/medrec/jaml" }{

 

 

For 50% of traffic send a 502 response

 

if { $flag == 0 }{

 

HTTP::respond 502 content {html...}

 

set flag 1

 

}

 

else {

 

set flag 0

 

}

 

}

 

}