Description

ICMP traffic is not seen in monitor traffic interface for revenue ports

Solution

On Juniper SRX devices, operators may observe that ICMP packets are visible when using monitor traffic interface fxp0 matching icmp, but no ICMP packets appear when monitoring a revenue interface (for example, ge-0/0/0, reth0, etc.).

 

This is expected behavior when pinging a revenue interface; the ICMP traffic is processed entirely by the Packet Forwarding Engine rather than the Routing Engine, and therefore does not appear in the monitor output.

Modification History

2024-09-03: Initial Release