Wednesday, January 9, 2019

On which end of an IPSEC site2site tunnel would you create firewall rules?

This is by no means an enterprise setting, but we have two pfSense firewalls running a perpetual IPSEC tunnel between office and a remote location (datacenter).

Right now all traffic can pass between the IPSEC interfaces on both ends, going either way (not secure). I believe it's a best practice to limit that traffic within reason for security reasons.

Would it make a difference as to which end the firewall rules exist? Let's say I want to allow traffic only for backup replication, should I create matching rules on both ends (with reversed source/destination so it works)?

Thanks in advance!



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