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Ronald_van_der3
Nimbostratus
Could you explain a bit more what you are trying to accomplish. Setting the source IP-adress of the poolmember and loadbalancing to that member (or other member) would introduce quite some issues on L2. In other words, I don't think this would work at all, even if you get the iRule right.
Please explain why you need this and what you want to solve?
ekim9190_208428
Jun 29, 2015Nimbostratus
I'm not setting anything, I'm simply attempting look at the client's ip address and check if its part of a 'list' or a pool. This is a customer's requirements based on antiquated business rules/logic. Their data flow has many load balancing points based on how they validate data and once it is in their network it has to follow a very strict path. Rudimentary visual follows:
Internet client -> vip1:1234 -> dataflow1_step1_pool -> vip2:4321 -> dataflow1_step2_pool
vip1:2134 -> dataflow2_step1_pool -> vip2:4321 -> dataflow2_step2_pool
and so on... So at the second load balancing point everything gets sent to the same vserver and i need a clean way of defining where the traffic should be sent. It should be noted that the client is unable to change their infrastructure and the way they operate. The goal is to make the f5 do the hard work.
The point of this is for simplified management/administration. I can easily do this is with a datagroup or globally defined list, however, pool members can change daily and having to change the pool member and then verify the datagroups are properly reflected introduces complexity. I will not be maintaining this, the customers will.