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    Port forwarding to the VPN IPsec tunnel

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      lukaszc
      last edited by

      Hi,
      We have problem in port forwarding to the tunnel VPN IPsec.
      My configuration:

      pfsense1:
      IPsec with 192.168.50.0/24

      pfsense2:
      IPsec with 172.16.33.0/24

      In pfsense2 I add NAT rule on WAN interface with redirect destination port 3342 to ip 192.168.50.128, but it doesn't work.
      I think problem is in selectors in P2 in IPsec.
      It's possible NAT this redirect to IPsec tunnel?
      Thanks fo help.

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      • DerelictD
        Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
        last edited by

        No. IPsec won't do that if you are port forwarding from arbitrary addresses. You don't get reply-to at the 192.168.50.128 side so replies will go out WAN instead of back across the IPsec tunnel.

        You can do that over an OpenVPN tunnel though.

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          lukaszc
          last edited by

          Thanks for reply :)
          It really can't be done on pfsense? We have Fortigate in other location and this works fine with NAT.
          Maybe outbound NAT helps?
          WAN->Outbound NAT->IPsec
          I will also check the OpenVPN solution
          Thanks.

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            lukaszc
            last edited by

            OK - over an OpenVPN tunnel works fine - Thanks

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              Pernahajder @lukaszc
              last edited by

              @lukaszc
              Hi Lukaszc!
              How can you solve the problem over an OpenVPN?

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