[Swan] one way ping

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Thu Aug 30 23:18:30 UTC 2018


If there is no NAT you need to open protocol 50 ESP (not port, protocol)

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> On Aug 30, 2018, at 18:59, John Crisp <jcrisp at safeandsoundit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 28/08/18 21:56, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> could this be due to a RELATED iptables rules that only allows replies ?
>> 
> 
> 
> Just found it. I have a Firewall on the hosting at vultr where the two
> VMs are. It has the following basic firewall rules and each server has
> the same rule set applied (they have their own firewalls too)
> 
> accept ICMP -         0.0.0.0/0
> accept TCP 80         0.0.0.0/0
> accept TCP <SSH port> 0.0.0.0/0
> accept TCP 443        0.0.0.0/0
> accept TCP 465        0.0.0.0/0
> accept UDP 500        0.0.0.0/0
> accept UDP 4500       0.0.0.0/0
> drop any 0-65535      0.0.0.0/0
> 
> For whatever good reason when I removed the servers from my hosting
> providers firewall group the pings suddenly flowed..... !
> 
> Not sure what else I'd need to open to let pings across the VPN through!!!
> 
> The servers own firewall seems to be quite happy with the same rules as
> above.
> 
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