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Status Not under consideration
Workspace DataPower Gateway
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 19, 2023

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Allow TCP connection when DP backside calls DP frontside over a external loadbalancer (e.g. for wrapper APIs)

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We have the necessity to call another Gateway provided API from within an API (wrapper API).

For reasons of continuity those requests should have the same URL, as a client request.

We are working with external load balancer, so DNS resolves to load balancer IP --> Packets are routed out over backside interface, are routed to the loadbalancer and then back to a DP frontside interface in the loadbalancer group.

If coincidentally the same DP device gets the request, no TCP ACK is send, the packets are dropped. (See linked case for details)

We currently have a workaround with local host aliases resolving a loopback address (127.0.x.y), but this is a very static thing causing maintenance expense.

We would prefer correctly routing of packages inside DataPower, even the package has turend a round outside DP.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Ulas Cubuk
    Oct 20, 2023

    Many thanks again for submitting your idea to IBM, we truly value the time you took to do so.  Unfortunately, responding to a SYN request from an IP that is owned by another interface on the same DataPower would require massive changes at the network layer, the cost to implement the wider architectural changes which would be needed to support this are not so small. I'm sorry we are unable to progress your idea further at this time. The idea has therefore been moved to the not under consideration state.

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