[Openswan Users] firewall and certificates

Norman Rasmussen normanr at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 11:25:59 CEST 2005


You should NEVER forward port 1701!  The whole idea is that you're
forcing the l2tp traffic to go via ipsec.  If you forward 1701, you
practically remove the ipsec protection.

On 24/07/05, Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Rob Mokkink wrote:
> 
> > The vpn server is behind a shorewall firewall, the following ports are
> > dnatted udp ports: 1701, 500 , 50 , 4500
> 
> 50 is PROTOcol 50, not PORT 50
> And for l2tp (ipsec in transport mode) it is 51.
> 
> Paul
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