Forum Discussion
Chris_Grant
Aug 18, 2016Employee
It depends on the modules, but to address the three you asked about:
- The packet is first evaluated by the packet filter
- Next it is evaluated by AFM. Keep in mind that AFM has it's own order of operations and will work down that as well:
- global,
- route domain,
- virtual server,
- and self IP.
- LTM comes next.
- ASM processes the traffic after LTM, then hands the traffic back to LTM to finish up with. ASM sits off to the side and either tells LTM to proceed or hands out a block page.