How ACE classifies the traffic and send it to appropriate Context

Question

Hi ,
Could some one please explain packet clasification in ACE modulue  ,example : let us assume thee are three contexts ( context1 , context 2, context3) in ACE module , how the ACE  classifies the traffic and send to appropriate CONTEXT  if any customer comes and hit the ACE .
Regards
Raj

Answer 1

Hello Raj,
In addition to what Ajay mentioned, yes each virtual address ( VIP) in combination with the port which you configured( if any) will act as unique identifier for the ACE to handle a specific traffic and finally take the load balance decision it needs or any other action which would be required
Another thing which you can take into consideration from the routing perspective is that you configure on the Admin Context the specific vlans allocated to each contexts based on your requirements so for example: you may allocate this vlan10 for context 1 then vlan 20 for context 2 or all of the vlans for context 3
Going back to your original, yes the ACE works this:
Request ----->VIP--->ACE checks which contexts has the VIP in question---->send request to context--->traffic is load balanced between the servers
Jorge