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    I accidentally removed some of the rules created by pfsense for an IPSEC VPN

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      bdgarcia
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      Hi All,

      I was trying to clean up extraneous rules in my firewall rule base, and I did something bone headed and removed some of the IPSEC VPN rules.  I did not realize that until a couple months after I change a number of other things so going back to restore a previous rule base is not practical.  Can someone provide me a list of the rules needed for IPSEC so I can rebuild.  I tried disabling and re-enabling IPSEC and that does not restore the firewall rules.

      Thank you in advance for your help.

      Bryan

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        IPsec has its own WAN rules by default internally that cannot be deleted.

        Rules for tunneled IPsec traffic on the IPsec tab are entirely up to you - There are none there by default. You can add a rule to pass all protocols from any/to any on the IPsec tab if you like, or be more specific.

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          kapara
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          Also you should be able to restore changes from the backup/Restore???

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