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    Can I route internet traffic from site B through site A via Ipsec VTI?

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      gabacho4 Rebel Alliance
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      I just have the one floating rule for ipsec. When I made those last changes you suggested the firewall errors started saying IPSEC_VTI instead of ipsec. I had to disable those last changes as they resulted in me losing access to the remote router. Thank goodness for openvpn. 😊

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        Konstanti @gabacho4
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        @ngoehring123

        Excuse. I didn't think there would be such a result. I have no more ideas )))

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          gabacho4 Rebel Alliance
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          No worries my friend. Your time and effort is greatly appreciated. Here's to hoping this gets sorted out soon. I'll be sure to share the fix with you. Thanks again!

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            Konstanti @gabacho4
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            @ngoehring123

            I would consider an option of the usual IPSEC tunnel, through it too it is possible to pass a traffic outside.

            https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/vpn/ipsec/routing-internet-traffic-through-a-site-to-site-ipsec-vpn.html

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              gabacho4 Rebel Alliance
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              I had thought of doing that as well but really like the routed option more due to its flexibility and power. Perhaps @jimp has some tips for me.

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                gabacho4 Rebel Alliance
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                The really weird thing now is that my phone says I have no internet connection yet here I am writing to you and browsing the internet. Something is ascew...

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                  Konstanti @gabacho4
                  last edited by Konstanti

                  @ngoehring123

                  That's possible. I myself use the GRE over IPSEC option and do not want to switch to VTI yet.
                  Will wait to hear other forum members

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                    Konstanti @gabacho4
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                    @ngoehring123
                    In this forum, I read that some remove the VTI interface, re-create the tunnel , and the problems are solved

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                      gabacho4 Rebel Alliance
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                      I'll give that a go. After everything else, it won't hurt!

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                        saeed
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                        Hi,
                        I have the exactly same problem, did you get find any solution?

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                          gabacho4 Rebel Alliance
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                          I did not. Last thing I tried was to remove the interface, delete the static routes, and the remove the p1 and p2 and do it all over again. No luck. So I went back to openvpn. I was super excited to use the ipsec route instead due to the better throughput and all.

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                            saeed
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                            Openvpn is cool , but unfortunately Iran's government filter it here, so we must find another solution.

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                              gabacho4 Rebel Alliance
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                              Yeah I'm in a part of the world where I want the anonymity as well. Have you tried openvpn on port 443? Or does Iran filter on something more specific?

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                                saeed @gabacho4
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                                @ngoehring123 Tried that either

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                                  ccb056
                                  last edited by ccb056

                                  Trying to get this working between China and USA.
                                  I've got a stable VTI network, and traffic passes successfully between the machines on both LAN ends.

                                  I create a LAN rule on the China router to use the gateway on the USA router, and it looks like some traffic is tunneled through, but not everything.

                                  Webpages from a laptop can load some elements, but not all; and webpages from a phone don't work much at all.

                                  I had this working on the old IPSEC with the 0.0.0.0/0 phase 2, but I really want to change over to routed IPSEC to address some other issues.

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                                    Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                      Ok, all that blocked traffic you're seeing is TCP flagged traffic that is out of state. It's either blocked because the states have already closed, probably the case on that :PA traffic, ot because the states were never opened, usually due to rouet asymmetry.

                                      https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/firewall/troubleshooting-blocked-log-entries-for-legitimate-connection-packets.html

                                      You should be trying to find out why that is happening not just trying to pass the traffic anyway. Remove any floating rules you added there. You should not be seeing asymmetric traffic if this is setup correctly.

                                      I assume pings work fine from the policy routed clients?

                                      If you run a packet capture do you see both requests and replies at all points in the path?

                                      Steve

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