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forsan
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Apr 29, 2014

node select iRule

Hi,

 

I have created an iRule that that is supposed to send traffic to a specific node depending on input from the URI. The iRule looks like this:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { set node_ip [getfield [HTTP::uri] "/" 4] if { $node_ip >= 160 and $node_ip <= 253 } { HTTP::uri [string map [list $node_ip ""] [HTTP::uri]] node "10.1.1.$node_ip" 80 } else { pool mediaroot-pool } }

 

The idé is that if I use the url http://example.com/foo/bar/mediaroot/image1.jpg I will be sent to the "default" pool mediaroot-pool. But if I go to the url http://example.com/foo/bar/170/mediaroot/image1.jpg I will be sent to the node 10.1.1.170 and the URI will be changed to /foo/bar/mediaroot/image1.jpg with a rewrite.

 

I have created nodes between .160 and .253.

 

The part of the iRule that is not working is this: if { $node_ip >= 160 and $node_ip <= 253 }

 

If I go to the URL http://example.com/foo/bar/170/mediaroot/image1.jpg its sent to the correct node but with the URL http://example.com/foo/bar/mediaroot/image1.jpg the if statement thinks that mediaroot (getfield value 4) is correct.

 

Is the if statement that checks if the $node_ip is between 160-253 wrong?

 

Regards Andréas

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Apr 29, 2014

    with the URL http://example.com/foo/bar/mediaroot/image1.jpg the if statement thinks that mediaroot (getfield value 4) is correct.

     

    it went to mediaroot-pool pool here. how did you know it went to the wrong node?

     

  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Apr 29, 2014

    e.g.

     config

root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) list ltm virtual bar
ltm virtual bar {
    destination 172.28.24.10:80
    ip-protocol tcp
    mask 255.255.255.255
    pool foo
    profiles {
        http { }
        tcp { }
    }
    rules {
        qux
    }
    source 0.0.0.0/0
    source-address-translation {
        type automap
    }
    vs-index 9
}
root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) list ltm rule qux
ltm rule qux {
    when HTTP_REQUEST {
  set node_ip [getfield [HTTP::uri] "/" 4]
  log local0. "node_ip $node_ip"
  if { $node_ip >= 160 and $node_ip <= 253 } {
    HTTP::uri [string map [list $node_ip ""] [HTTP::uri]]
    log local0. "HTTP::uri [string map [list $node_ip ""] [HTTP::uri]] "
    log local0. "node 10.1.1.$node_ip 80"
  } else {
    log local0. "pool mediaroot-pool"
  }
}
}

 test

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  curl -I http://example.com/foo/bar/mediaroot/image1.jpg
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:37:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tail /var/log/ltm
Apr 29 05:47:42 ve11a info tmm1[13022]: Rule /Common/qux : node_ip mediaroot
Apr 29 05:47:42 ve11a info tmm1[13022]: Rule /Common/qux : pool mediaroot-pool
  • forsan's avatar
    forsan
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    May 12, 2014

    Hi,

    I got the following error in the log: May 12 09:07:04 bigip err tmm[9415]: 01220001:3: TCL error: /Common/mediaroot - bad IP address format (line 😎 invoked from within "node "10.1.1.$node_ip" 80"

    I have now found that if I use I URL other than a number or /mediaroot/ as the 4:th argument in the URI the iRule do not match any of the if statements. What I have done is that I modified the first elseif statement to elseif { $node_ip starts_with "1" || $node_ip starts_with "2" && $node_ip >= 160 } to check that its a number and then added an else statement that drops the connection if its not matching the other statements.

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    set node_ip [getfield [HTTP::uri] "/" 4]
    if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with “/foo/bar/mediaroot/“ } {
        log local0. "starts with /foo/bar/mediaroot/"
        pool mediaroot-pool
    } elseif { $node_ip starts_with "1" || $node_ip starts_with "2" && $node_ip >= 160 } {
        HTTP::uri [string map [list $node_ip ""] [HTTP::uri]]
        node "10.1.1.$node_ip" 80
    } else {
        drop
    }
}