The BIG-IP AFM Operations Guide

The BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is an ICSA-certified Firewall that provides critical protection for all of your web applications.  It is built on TMOS (the foundational operating system used...
Published Jun 16, 2016
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Aug 20, 2017

I was just looking at the August 2017 version of this document, and on page 8 in the section 'Flow Lookup', the document states the following:

 

The packet process flows in the following sequence:

 

  1. If the BIG-IP platform uses ePVA hardware acceleration and the ow matches the hardware ow table, then the packet is processed and sent directly to egress.
  2. If there is a match on the hardware flow table, the packet is passed on to flow input for post L4 processing, in the direction of egress.

Should the second reference to the 'hardware flow table' be changed to 'software flow table' or is 2 merely duplicating the content of 1?