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Fortigate Dialup VPN client does not get an IP address although a DHCP pool is created and “DHCP-IPsec” is checked in the phase-2 VPN settings. An IPSEC ESP error is also raised in the event log. Setting a static IP does connect the client.   To solve this, an additional firewall rule needs to be [...]

Tags: DHCP, dialup, firewall, Fortigate, Fortinet, IPSEC, lease, network, vpn

As any other firewall, iptables is also able to do network statistics reporting. the -v (–verbose) option makes the list command (-L) show the packet and byte counters. Network stats are available on a per rule basis. Here’s an example on the INPUT chain:   [stats@network_server]$ sudo iptables -nvL INPUT Chain INPUT (policy DROP 74941 [...]

Tags: firewall, iptables, linux, network, stats, traffic