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roblof_255673
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Mar 23, 2016

Redirect traffic to a specific node in a pool depending on URL using iRules

Two months on the meter with F5 and now I need some help with iRules.   I want "www.domain.com/x/login" to be directed to two specific servers test1 and test2 in pool "tool-test" and "www.domain.c...
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Josiah_39459
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It's possible with an elaborate irule using the pool member command and programming your own load balancing algorithm--but then you are losing pretty much all the benefit of having them in a pool in the first place (and you could just as easily use the node command).

 

Why not have two pools?

 

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Josiah_39459
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Mar 23, 2016
Yep. In an irule you can send traffic to pools which aren't attached to the vip.