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    Pfsense traceroute hop unreachable through IPSEC

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      Vlado
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      I'm observing a behavior that I cannot understand. I have the following pretty simple IPSEC setup:

      192.168.2.0/24 (P2) === X.X.X.X (P1) … Y.Y.Y.Y (P1) === 172.21.140.0/24 (P2)

      The X.X.X.X and Y.Y.Y.Y addresses are both public. Behind them are both private networks 172.21.140.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24.

      Here are a couple of traceroute results from both private networks to IPs belonging to the other private network respectively:

      from 172.21.140.101:
      traceroute to 192.168.2.166 (192.168.2.166), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
      1  172.21.140.2 (172.21.140.2)  0.468 ms  0.644 ms  0.840 ms
      2  * * *
      3  192.168.2.166 (192.168.2.166)  3.434 ms  3.484 ms  3.663 ms

      from 192.168.2.166:
      traceroute to 172.21.140.101 (172.21.140.101), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
      1  192.168.2.2 (192.168.2.2)  0.227 ms  0.209 ms  0.201 ms
      2  * * *
      3  172.21.140.101 (172.21.140.101)  4.495 ms  4.499 ms  4.494 ms

      It can be seen that the remote pfSense's hop is unreachable in both directions. Is this a normal behavior and is there something that can be done setting-wise in order to actually get a result from the remote pfSense's hop?

      I apologize if this has been asked and explained before, but I tried searching and most of the questions connected with mine were more complicated than my simple scenario.

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