Server Load-balancing and ACL router decision

Hello,
My 2 server farm distribution switches are running in "hybrid" mode, with CAT OS on the switch and IOS on the MSFC.
My server team is asking to block traffic to a specific server that is load balanced using Cisco's CSM load-balancer which is also installed in the chassis.
The question that I have is this.
Does anyone know in what order the MSFC will inspect and apply the ACL and when will the CSM make the load balancing decision?
The reason I need to know this is that the CSM is setup in bridged mode, where traffic to the server comes into the MSFC with a destination IP of a VIP which resides on the CSM. Subsequently, the CSM forwards the traffic to the one of the real servers in the load-balanced server farm after it makes its load-balancing decision. Which ocurrs first??
Does anyone have any info on what ocurrs first and so forth??
Is there a link to Cisco's website that explains this process??
Thanks in advance for your help.
Tony

Tony,
It sounds as if your setup is like this:
Client VLAN----MSFC----VLAN A----CSM----Server VLAN
With VLAN A and Server VLAN being the same IP subnet.
In this case all client traffic reaching the VIPs on the CSM first traverses the MSFC. So, if you want to block traffic to a specific VIP or Server IP you can do that on the MSFC's Interface for Client VLAN. You could configure an access list that filters inbound traffic on that VLAN interface.
Make sense?
-Brad

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