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Date:      Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:23:37 -0400
From:      "Chris Buechler" <cbuechler@gmail.com>
To:        "Rudi Kramer - MWEB" <rkramer@mweb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GRE Limitation
Message-ID:  <d64aa1760807180523g2357dfd1r3bf8cdb5568e666f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Rudi Kramer - MWEB <rkramer@mweb.com> wrote:
>
> I had the same issue and when I checked with our ms-admin team they said
> it was a Microsoft limitation.
>

No, it's an issue with many NAT implementations and how they handle
state for the GRE protocol. pf only tracks source IP, dest IP and
protocol. It has to do something more advanced, like tracking by GRE
call ID in addition to src/dst, to track connections in this manner.

Chris



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