Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Packet Tracer

Create and View Packet Tracer Entries

In this section, you will generate various types of traffic as you did previously, but now you will view the flow using the network packet tracer. Login to bigip01.f5demo.com

(10.1.1.4), navigate to Security > Debug > Packet Tester.

Create a packet test with the following parameters:

Protocol	TCP
TCP Flags	SYN
Source	IP - 1.2.3.4 Port – 9999 Vlan – external
TTL	255
Destination	IP – 10.1.20.11 Port - 80
Trace Options	Use Staged Policy – no Trigger Log - no

Click Run Trace to view the response. Your output should resmeble the allowed flow as shown below:

You can also click on the “Route Domain Rules” trace result and see which rule is permitting the traffic.

Click New Packet Trace (optionally do not clear the existing data – aka leave checked).

Create a packet test with the following parameters:

Protocol	TCP
TCP Flags	SYN
Source	IP - 1.2.3.4 Port – 9999 Vlan – Outside
TTL	255
Destination	IP – 10.1.20.11 Port - 8081
Trace Options	Use Staged Policy – no Trigger Log - no

Click Run Trace to view the response. Your output should resemble the allowed flow as shown below:

Protocol	TCP
TCP Flags	SYN
Source	IP - 1.2.3.4 Port – 9999 Vlan – Outside
TTL	255
Destination	IP – 10.1.20.11 Port - 443
Trace Options	Use Staged Policy – no Trigger Log - no

This traffic will be blocked by the default deny rule

This shows there is no rule associated with the route domain or a virtual server which would permit the traffic. As such, the traffic would be dropped/rejected.