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OpenVPN and UDP Flood Protection

I'm having an issue with the Sophos UTM, where I have a firewall rule that allows a client behind the firewall to connect to an OpenVPN server (I allow connections to UDP port 1194). Everything works great. However, when I enable UDP Flood Protection, the OpenVPN bandwidth drops by orders of magnitude (from over 100 Mbps to less than 3). I can see in the IPS logs that that the IPS flags a "UDP flood detected" to the IP and port of the OpenVPN server. I've added an exception to the IPS to ignore the OpenVPN service (port 1194), but it still flags it.

Am I missing something in the configuration?


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  • This exception doesn't open any ports, Martin.  You must have a firewall rule that lets "1:65535 --> 1194" traffic out.  The connection tracker will allow the return traffic.

    Cheers - Bob
     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
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  • This exception doesn't open any ports, Martin.  You must have a firewall rule that lets "1:65535 --> 1194" traffic out.  The connection tracker will allow the return traffic.

    Cheers - Bob
     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
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