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Mahi's avatar
Mahi
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Nov 20, 2019

Why ping from f5 is coming encrypted?

I can ping from my laptop to a F5 device's self-IP and see them as valid ICMP traffic in the wireshark.   When I ping form F5 device to the laptop IP, I see them as encrypted traffic over port 2...
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Simon_Blakely
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Nov 20, 2019

Your incoming capture filter is probably missing the incoming ICMP packets.

Add a specific filter for icmp.

 

On port 22 you are seeing the SSH traffic for your console as the ping command writes to the console and then sends it over SSH back to the laptop for Putty to display. It will happen at exactly the same time as the ICMP packets are being sent ...

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    Mahi
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    Nov 22, 2019

    Wow, I didn't think about that. The ICMP packets are indeed missing and therefore I couldn't see them in the capture. Thank