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peter_71591
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Mar 21, 2012

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Hi, I'd like to know whether F5's can do the following. I have two servers I want to keep in sync (see exactly the same traffic) they must be seen as one machine from the outside world. So they would ...
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Mar 21, 2012
Hi Peter,

 

 

What protocol(s) do you want to do this for? For HTTP you can clone requests to a second pool. Requests are copied and responses from the second pool are dropped.

 

 

HTTP Request Cloning via iRules

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1088513/HTTP-Request-Cloning-via-iRules-Part-1.aspx

 

 

It should be possible to do something similar for generic TCP and/or UDP traffic using high speed logging.

 

 

If the first server is down, you could send all requests to the second pool. And generally BIG-IP's are deployed in an HA pair, so redundancy at that level is taken care of.

 

 

Aaron