Re: [c-nsp] Regular Expression Load Balancing

2011-03-10 Thread Gregori Parker
CSS (and its replacement: ACE) arent very extensible at layer 7, so F5 LTM or Citrix Netscalers are your best bet for this. On the F5, you would use "iRules" (very TCL-like), and on Netscalers you would use content switching policies. I use both for exactly what you're trying to do and would reco

Re: [c-nsp] Regular Expression Load Balancing

2011-03-10 Thread Wil Schultz
I can't comment on the CSS for layer 7 routing, but we use the F5 LTM (BigIP) to do plenty of L7 manipulation via iRules. Depending on the load on the VIP and the horsepower of the load balancer you would do well to stay out of manipulation that has to do with any body content and use the HTTP

[c-nsp] Regular Expression Load Balancing

2011-03-10 Thread Sam Hall
Hi Guys We have a couple of Cisco CSS11501's and are exploring the possibility if they can load balance based on text found in packets i.e. "regular expression"... We need to migrate individual client's traffic one by one to a new environment, this is a TCP 443 session that has no context path