Hi Claudio!

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 9:24 AM Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> You have asymetric routing and with that stateful firewall rules will
> cause you problems. In your case gw1 will block the ICMP reply because it
> never encountered the ICMP request matching that reply.

I do have pfsync on the hosts, so the state table is syncronised.

Do you not use pfsync at all?

> On most of my BGP routers I have either pf disabled or I write the ruleset
> so that only local traffic is stateful but all forwarded traffic uses a
> no-state rule. IIRC even sloppy-state tracking will block some traffic
> that's why I avoid that option.

Interesting.

Would you be willing to share your rules (or at least a redacted
version) off-list, as a real example of how you do this?

Thanks!

Ian

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