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Brett_Jang_1391
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Dec 11, 2013

Asking easier and more comprehensive explanation about LineRate application proxsy software Sir!!

Hi! I'm mailing you again! I'm reviewing the articles again and again that F5 has recently announced for launching LineRate in news release. but I'm still not sure about what this product is. So I am asking basic and comprehensive concept about LineRate application proxy software. my questions are as follow 1. What is LineRate application proxy software?(what is this doing in network. what benefit can DevOps get using this?) 2. Is it H/W product or S/W product? (I need some configuration which is running with other devices) For my better understanding, Could you give me some illustration?(conceptional or physical block diagram would be very appreciated) 3. What relationship do they have between this Application proxy server and Node.JS and open API. 4. Does this co-work with I-Control? How I can put them together and suggest this combination to my customer? As you guided me by previous answer mail, I can refer every information via F5.LineRate.com site but I am still so confusing Please help me out to catch the clear concept then I have to introduce what this all about to my F5 sales guys this weekend. I'm so Sorry for my insufficient knoweledge and concept about new product. Hope your quick responce please. Any configuration or illustration relating this new product would be great helpful for me. My e-mail address is brett@itian.co.kr Thank you for reading! Bye!

 

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  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Dec 11, 2013
    please delete one of your two identical questions, this one would be best.
  • Faruk_Grozdanic's avatar
    Faruk_Grozdanic
    Historic F5 Account
    Dec 13, 2013

    Hello,

     

    Take a look at LineRate documentation and see if that gives you a better understanding on what the product is, and what it does. There are diagrams and use cases in the documentation as well.

     

    1) LineRate sits in the data path and gives you the ability to take action based on data in server request and response as well as client request and response. For HTTP service all aspects of HTTP packet can be inspected, decision made based on it, data rewritten, request rejected, or any other action one deems necessary. This functionality is provided via Nodejs API, which also gives flexibility to program logic that could encompass a third service such as database lookup for decision making what to do with the request. Third party Nodejs modules could be loaded using npm (Node Package Manager) implementation LineRate comes with. This gives you access to over tens of thousands of community provided modules.

     

    2) LineRate is a SW appliance that can be installed on server HW, as well as installed on virtualized systems (cloud).

     

    DevOps community can utilize LineRate to create simple solutions for challenges that come with web applications, such as checking for presence of a cookie in HTTP request, if not present, contact the authentication server, then based on authentication response inject the cookie into the HTTP request before it is sent to real server.