@mgcsec said in pfsense packet process order:
@stephenw10
thank you!
and then where are local services/plugins involved?
for example Nginx in that chain?
NAT=>FW=>Nginx=>NAT=>FW=>Upstream?
For some services, yes, this is the processing order. But for others such as the IDS/IPS packages, this is the processing order:
IDS/IPS => NAT => FW (for inbound traffic on WAN)
IDS/IPS => FW => NAT (for inbound traffic on LAN)