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RobL216_235020
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Nov 10, 2016

load balance http traffic on diiferent ports

Is it possible to load balance http traffic on different ports to the same pool members using the same VS?

 

For example we have an application that uses a virtual server on our LTM of appsvr.

 

A user browses to appsvr and gets port 80 traffic sent to one of the pool members. Great!

 

Now we also have an application that needs to communicate with the system behind appsvr but does this on port 9000. Can I add this port somehow to the appsvr virtual server on the F5 so that it can forward that traffic on to the same pool members using the same virtual server name?

 

Hope this makes sense.

 

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  • Ed_Summers's avatar
    Ed_Summers
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    Nov 10, 2016

    Building on David's terminology clarification, 'node' would be the back-end server IP, while 'pool member' is an ip:port combination. So you're forwarding to the same node, but different ports on the node, hence different pool members.

     

    I tend to think of VIP as just the virtual IP address, and the combination of VIP and port/service as a 'virtual service/server'. However people use many of the terms interchangeably, hence need for clarification sometimes.

     

    Good luck! I think you'll be in good shape.

     

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    RobL216_235020
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    Nov 11, 2016

    David, Ed.

     

    Thanks such a lot for your patience and help.

     

    I now have the two VIP/VS services done.

     

    I think some of my confusion was using the iApp template and then realising that the name of the VIP/VS iApp is not the FQDN!!

     

    Sorted now so thank you very much.