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scorpa_121336
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Oct 23, 2014

F5 apm ACL ACES bypassed

Hello folks!   I'm having strange problem on one of our BigIP with SSL VPN. We are using APM to provide SSL VPN and assign ACL to control user behavior on L4. In access policy we authenticate user...
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  • kunjan_118660's avatar
    kunjan_118660
    Oct 27, 2014

    It seems like some other VS is catching the traffic instead of internal built-in APM virtual(_tmm_apm_fwd_vip).

     

    Try to do a tcpdump (tcpdump -ns0 -i 0.0:nnn) which can verify this.

     

    I guess you also might see the problem of ACCESS_ACL_ALLOWED event not triggered because of this issue.

     

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Oct 23, 2014

In this article https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/manuals/product/apm-config-11-4-0/apm_config_resources.html147263

 

I should create:

 

With network access, you can use a Layer 7 ACL that is configured to provide access control for port 80 HTTP connections. However, if you want to provide access control for anything that is not on port 80, you must create a second virtual server, configured with the IP address to which the ACL entry applies, and the default access profile, access

 

But there is no explanation how to create this "second virtual server", For example in Standard virtual server there is no option to choose "access" profile in access policy segment.