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TCP traffic randomly not tunneled in xfrm - XG 19

After extensive tracing of the traffic, what happens is that XG receives the packet, but it does not encapsulate it to send over the xfrm interface.

this is from the server side:

this is from the client side:

where you can see that IP packet 1288 never reaches the client.

this is a capture on the XG by doing tcpdump -nei any 'port 4899'

it shows each packet twice, captured from the LAN and VPN interface.

you can see IP Packet 1288 being sent out over the WAN / xfrm interface

but capturing ESP traffic from the server side XG and decrypting it (tcpdump -ne proto 50), it shows that the IP packet was never encapsulated to be sent over the xfrm tunnel

you can see IP packet 2356 sent out, but IP packet 1288 never makes it to the ESP



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  • This is very interesting, I have exactly the same problem right now. I have two xfrm tunnels and one MPLS line.

    The firewall keeps sending packets not towards the xfrm tunnel or MPLS but to the internet via the WAN interface. This is clearly visible via TCPDump and then the sessions freeze. It takes about 20-30 seconds and then the firewall sends the packets to the xfrm tunnel or MPLS again.

    In Wireshark log I see a lot of TCP Retransmission and TCP DUP ACK packets

    Routing precedence already turned several times... have now opened a ticket, because I can not explain the behavior absolutely.

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  • This is very interesting, I have exactly the same problem right now. I have two xfrm tunnels and one MPLS line.

    The firewall keeps sending packets not towards the xfrm tunnel or MPLS but to the internet via the WAN interface. This is clearly visible via TCPDump and then the sessions freeze. It takes about 20-30 seconds and then the firewall sends the packets to the xfrm tunnel or MPLS again.

    In Wireshark log I see a lot of TCP Retransmission and TCP DUP ACK packets

    Routing precedence already turned several times... have now opened a ticket, because I can not explain the behavior absolutely.

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