ltm rule event CLIENT ACCEPTED

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CLIENT_ACCEPTED
DESCRIPTION
       An iRule event triggered when a client has established a connection.

       In effect, when an entry is inserted in the BIG-IP connection table,
       this event fires. For TCP connections, this happens when the three-way
       handshake successfully completes. For non-TCP connections, this will
       fire at a point that may not be wholly intuitive. For example, UDP is
       connectionless, so one might reasonably expect this event to fire with
       each segment in a UDP stream. However, BIG-IP does create a connection
       table entry for UDP, and assigns a timeout. If no segment arrives
       matching the table entry within the timeout period, the entry is
       removed (and CLIENT_CLOSED fires). However, segments matching the table
       entry that arrive within the timeout period will not trigger a new
       CLIENT_ACCEPTED event (and will reset the timeout timer for the entry).
       The timeout is generally configured, in the case of UDP, via the UDP
       profile (or a child profile) applied to the virtual server.

       Some profile settings may also have an effect on when events are
       raised. For example, the "Datagram LB" setting on the UDP profile will
       force each segment in a UDP stream (that is, packets carrying UDP
       segments that all have a common source ip/port and destination ip/port)
       to load-balance. Between the BIG-IP system and the pool members, the
       forwarded segments will use different source port numbers for each
       segment (sort of like SNAT, but just for the port). In this case,
       CLIENT_ACCEPTED will fire for each segment. This is actually a specific
       case of the more general rule above, as each segment essentially
       creates an independent connection table entry. Notice, for example,
       that CLIENT_CLOSED will still fire for each segment after the timeout
       period.

Examples
	when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
	  set curtime [clock seconds]
	  set formattedtime [clock format $curtime -format {%H:%S} ]
	  log "the time is: $formattedtime"
	}

HINTS
SEE ALSO
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       server based IP/networks and ports. This particular example is designed
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       Null Virtual Server.   - Performs
       a reverse DNS lookup to validate client IP  - Request a client SSL certificate by URI and
       validate it using OCSP  - This iRule
       illustrates how to use HTTP Cookies for client based authentcation.
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       using OCSP for v10.1 - 10.2.x  - v10.0.1 CMP compatible global counter  - This iRule adds the ability to import CSV-
       formatted tabular data to a table via an HTTP sideband connection.
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       upon the destination address and whether that address is in on the the
       data groups called. This uses the matchclass method to try and match
       IP::local  - This iRule. selects a snatpool
       based on which virtual called the iRule. and will select the member
       servers to use based on DNS resolution.	 - Detect a prior HTTP redirect or response to avoid a runtime
       TCL error  - I had a customer who wanted
       to use a single virtual IP address for a mail s...
        - This iRule will block ALL further site
       access to source IP addresses that exceed a certain number of HTTP
       requests to server resources that results in a 404 not found error.
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       per incoming IP to the SNAT pool masquerading IPs assigned to CAS RPC
       connections  - Financial
       Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol iRule to select pool based on
       Sender Comp ID.	 - Log FTP connection and
       username information  - Rejects connection before handshake if no pool members are
       available  - This iRule translates the
       source MAC address in the lasthop entry to the Virtual MAC address of
       the VRRP/HSRP group  - iRule for HTTP
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       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HuntTheWumpus.ashx - For all you
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       used send read/write requests to different pools.
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.LimitConnectionsFromClient.ashx -
       Limit the number of TCP connections to a virtual server from client IP
       addresses.
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.Log_client_to_vip_connections.ashx
       - This iRule generates an entry in a log file whenever somebody
       connects to a virtual server.
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.LogEveryXSeconds.ashx - This
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       every X number of seconds.
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.LogHttpTcpUdpToSyslogng.ashx -
       You can use iRules to log a summary of each request and its response.
       and send the data to a remote syslog server using BIG-IP's syslog-ng
       daemon.	https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.MSMBypass.ashx - This
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       senders.  https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.MySQL-Proxy.ashx - An
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       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.NAT64_DNS64.ashx - This actually
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       Authentication offload onto an service such as LDAP.
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       iRule to load balance RADIUS requests.
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.ratio_load_balancing_using_rand_function.ashx
       - Use a psuedo random number to set a ratio for any iRule logic.  This
       avoids using a global counter mechanism to track past selections.
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.ReverseProxyWithBasicSSO.ashx -
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       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.Route_Domain_Snat_and_Nat_Implementation.ashx
       - This iRule Provides Snat and Nat capabilities across route domains
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SelectiveSNAT.ashx - iRule that
       SNATS based on host address and port while just forwarding everything
       else.
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.Sideband-connection-HTTP-example.ashx
       - Sends an HTTP request to a sideband server and parses the HTTP
       response headers and optionally the payload to determine which pool to
       send the client request to
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SingleNodePersistence.ashx - A
       really slick & reliable way to stick to one and only one server in a
       pool.  https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SMTP_Start_TLS.ashx -
       allows either clear text or TLS encrypted communication with SMTP
       protocol
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SMTP-filter-and-forward-proxy.ashx
       - SMTP filter and forward proxy
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SMTPProxy.ashx - This iRule
       implements a simple SMTP proxy.
       
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       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.snat_pool_persistence.ashx - This
       example shows how to select the same SNAT address for a given client IP
       address without tracking the selection in memory
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SOCKS5_SSL_Persistence.ashx -
       Much requested 2005 iRule contest winner (thanks Adam!)
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.SUPL-ILP-Message-Based-Load-Balancing-with-Persistence.ashx
       - SUPL ILP message-based load-balancing
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.TFTP_Server_as_iRule.ashx - This
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       e...
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.TLS-ServerNameIndication.ashx -
       Server Name Indication (TLS SNI) allows dynamic selection of clientssl
       profiles and pools
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.virtual_server_connection_rate_limit_with_tables.ashx
       - Limit the rate of connections to a virtual server to prevent
       overloading of pool members
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.VPN_Sorter.ashx - An iRule that
       allows the sorting of VPN traffic to the various VPN servers ...
       https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.Weblogic_JSessionID_Persistence.ashx
       - Provides persistence on the jsessionid value found in either the URI
       or a cookie.

CHANGE LOG
       @BIGIP-9.0.0 --First introduced the event.



BIG-IP				  2017-01-31			      iRule(1)