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32 | 32 | $ sysctl -a | grep forwarding |
33 | 33 | ``` |
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35 | +### Note on firewalls, conntrack and asymmetric routing |
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37 | +Do not configure iptables/nftables to drop packets with invalid conntrack state in forward chain. |
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39 | +In some cases your router will not see traffic from both sides e.g. requests are sent via different path not including your networks |
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40 | +but responses are fowarded via your network. This will prevent conntrack from assigning any meaningful state information to these packets |
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41 | +and your firewall will drop it if it is configured to drop packets with invalid state. |
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35 | 44 | Happy Routing! |
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