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Jan 22, 2013

ACL FOR APM

Hello Team,

 

i need your help about acl on apm.Namely, I am able to give remote access with acl and everything's ok . No problem on that. But. ı am unable to make configuration for icmp. As you know We are able to specify either tcp or udp or all protocols on the action type.However, ı need to allow icmp echo packets on the acl. If i remove the discarding acl ok I can ping to backend side but at this time you know we need to add all ports one by one.to discard. I wonder can we use an irule for that? Or is there another way besides of this? Because I am trying to make user based autentication and no problem on that.Namely, users are able to connect to system through AD. I mean if user is john , he goes to 80 port of 10.35.10.80 server but if user is ken , he goes to port 389 of 10.35.10.80 again.

 

 

content of test_acl example:

 

for allow;

 

type : static

 

Source IP Address:Any

 

Source IP Port:Any

 

Destination IP Address:10.35.10.80

 

Destination IP Port:80

 

protocol:allprotocol

 

Action:Allow

 

Log:packet

 

 

for discard;

 

 

type : static

 

Source IP Address:Any

 

Source IP Port:Any

 

Destination IP Address:Any

 

Destination IP Port:AllPort

 

protocol:allprotocol

 

Action:Discard

 

Log:packet

 

 

Thank you in advance

 

5 Replies

  • Hello Waterfall

     

    Mayby this helps:

     

    Network ›› Packet Filters : Rules ›› New Packet Filter Rule...

     

    At least, you can configure icmp, but i didn't try it.

     

    Koni
  • what you said is for only existing vlan on network configuration for ltm but i already want to allow icmp trafficinstead of discarding or rejection if i do as you said at that time it won't work in the acl table which i will create . i think it must be different way of that

     

  • acls support only tcp, udp and any (ip protocols)

     

    with the filter configuration you have the ability to allow icmp and the tcp ports you need.

     

     

    see also

     

    http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/data-center-firewall-dg.pdf

     

    "Using Packet Filters

     

    Another tool made available to use for configuring our sources and destinations are Packet Filters.

     

    These are configured on the BIG-IP system at a global level. This means that packet filters will

     

    impact all traffic traversing the BIG-IP system. This is useful in the case of setting global security for

     

    non TCP and UDP traffic such as ICMP."

     

     

    But you can also

     

    - allow tcp you need

     

    - drop tcp

     

    - drop udp

     

    - allow all

     

    but there are a lot of protocols which are allowed with this rule

     

  • Hi,

     

    Am having the same problem/challenge. Migrating from a Firepass which allows rules for ICMP per Resource Group to an APM which seems to only allow Packet Filters for ICMP on a per Virtual Server basis. I don't want to have to put in a Virtual Server to replace each Resource Group. Is there another way to apply a filter like that closer to the destination?

     

    Thanks in advance

     

     

    Yvonne

     

  • You cannot set the protocol from the gui, however within the cli/configuration protocol can be set to any protocol number

     

    1 -> ICMP

     

    6 -> TCP

     

    17 -> UDP

     

    or http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xml

     

    Anything but TCP/UDP will show up as any in the gui, but will conform to the protocol numbers as specified in the configuration.

     

     

    As I am writing this I am questioning myself, however I do recall running into the exact issue and finding this to be the solution.