NimbostratusHi All
I have a APM and version is 11.5.3.
I through the tcpdump capture traffic then I found traffic hit the _tmm_apm_fwd_vip_http virtual server.
Who can help me explain the VS in detail.
What is its purpose?
Thanks
D.Luo
This vip is created when you provision APM, it's part of 3 that handle Network Access traffic from a "connectivity profile", which is basically a special tunnel type of network interface. It's used as the forwarding virtual server for Network Access to process APM ACLs. The vips can be overridden by setting a higher-specificity (source or dest IP) vip on the connectivity profile vlan.
_tmm_apm_fwd_vip_http: This vip catches the HTTP traffic on port 80 and applies L7 and L4 ACLs.
_tmm_apm_fwd_vip: This vip catches everything besides port 80 and applies L4 ACLs.
The reason these are in there is that when a new network flow ingresses to BIG-IP, it must consult the list of virtual servers to determine how to handle the traffic. If a new flow doesn't match any virtual server listeners, it's dropped.
I'm not sure exactly what information you're looking for, but that's basically what it is.
