Updated Date: 07/07/2026
Capabilties
The Generic Message protocol provides a sample implementation of a message routing protocol filter. This section provides a concise summary of the BIG-IP Generic Message solution:
- Accepting client connections from a peer
- Establishing connections with a peer
- Asking the peer for its routing name
- Adding a dynamic route for the peer
- Registration of static routes to pool
- Separating packets into messages to be routed
- Designating a source and destination address for messages
- Support for both request and answer messages
- Appropriately setting the nexthop attribute of an answer message to the lasthop of the request message to instruct the message router to bypass route lookup.
- Ability for an iRule script to make the route selection and bypass route lookup.
- Ability for an iRule script to set and/or modify the source and destination addresses of a message.
- Ability for an iRule script to create a new message.
- Ability for an iRule script to drop a message.
A genericmessage profile is currently available via tmsh. There is currently no plan to include this in iControl or GUI.