The funny thing with iRules is that they are not officially supported based on my experience - you will have the same problem with everything you are doing to the box at OS level.
R, Oliver At 21:11 09.02.2008, Lee Pedder wrote: >F5 appliances can give you lots of flexibility at the application >level. The iRules featureset allows you to re-write web content on the >fly, which can be useful to work around temporary problems. This >feature can make turning a CDN on/off at short notice a breeze. >Another possible use for this is for compliance (example: you can >define a regex to obscure credit card numbers being sent to the >client, in case your app doesn't). There is some performance penalty >for these features. > >Also, the BigIP platform is basically Linux under the hood, with >special ASIC-based switching hardware. You get root access, and can >troubleshoot using tcpdump, grep logfiles, run cron jobs etc, and edit >config files for the application modules within the system. If you >need to integrate it into an automated provisioning system this makes >things pretty simple. Also if you're delegating responsibility for >pools / vips to another team the GUI is friendly enough to get on >with. > >One thing to check is the pricing. Various application modules have >different licenses and the pricing depends on the specification of >unit you run it on. > >If you're going for pure performance, and don't need the additional >features or management flexibility the F5 can offer, then you may find >the Foundry equipment offers better value. > >On 09/02/2008, Paul Raj Khangure <foundry-nsp at digitaljunkie.net> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone had any F5 experience and could give a rough > > overview of comparitive advantages / disadvantages, or point me in a > > general direction of where to concentrate on evaluation. > > > > prk > > _______________________________________________ > > foundry-nsp mailing list > > foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net > > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp > > >_______________________________________________ >foundry-nsp mailing list >foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net >http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
