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JayanthLakshmipathy
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Nov 08, 2023
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Looking for a TMSH command to check traffic flow

Hi I have few VS configured with source, destination and port as ANY. Its an early configuration, not sure whats the background. I can see traffic on all VS statistics.  Would like to check, is the...
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    Paulius
    Nov 08, 2023

    JayanthLakshmipathy I'm not sure if a command exists that would show this because the typical connection table outputs source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port, and destination pool member. I think the only option to look at connections in a reactive way would be to perform a tcpdump with the following flags that would insert F5 information about where the traffic is going.

    tcpdump -nni 0.0:nnp host <client_IP> -w /shared/tmp/my_cap.pcap

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Paulius
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Nov 08, 2023

JayanthLakshmipathy I'm not sure if a command exists that would show this because the typical connection table outputs source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port, and destination pool member. I think the only option to look at connections in a reactive way would be to perform a tcpdump with the following flags that would insert F5 information about where the traffic is going.

tcpdump -nni 0.0:nnp host <client_IP> -w /shared/tmp/my_cap.pcap

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    JayanthLakshmipathy
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    Nov 10, 2023

    Hi Paulius

    tcpdump, helped in getting what i need. Thanks very much.

     

    Thank you

    Jay