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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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Pratik_125797
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Jun 15, 2015

Nope that's not the case with me. When I do full tunnel with a static ACL everything gets blocked. However, I feel that if I break the ACL like

 

ACL 1 -: Allowed subnets ACL 2-: Deny Any

 

Probably it might work. I will try and update it over here.

 

As of now I am trying one ACL with multiple entries and one deny any entry.