Is bigip packet filter stateful or stateless?

Packet filter
I have allowed vmnet5 to http and dns to any destination, and drop all for the rest.

pf1.png

Nmap from client

nmap.png

Actually nmap could not determine whether port 80 is opened or closed because there is no response.

Packet filter log

pf2

Looks like the packet filter accept despite TCP FIN was sent…

The below tcpdump proves that TCP FIN was sent over.

tcpdump1.png

So based on the packet filter log I should conclude that packet filter is a stateless access control?

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