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jamesdris
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Apr 12, 2016

analyzing data in a fastl4 VIP

Is it possible to analyze data passing through a fastl4 VIP ? I need to be able to check the presence of some strings in the payload. Since all traffic will be on layer4 not sure if it can be done, b...
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VernonWells
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Apr 12, 2016

In short, no. FastL4 means "apply hardware acceleration when possible". When hardware acceleration is used, generally only the first segment from a flow is passed to the control plane. All of the other segments are handled by the ASIC/FPGA hardware only. That hardware cannot perform segment data inspection.