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NAT-T and Firewall Rulesets
Because the new NAT-T code is designed around the IETF RFC 3193 and draft-02 of the IETF NAT-T specification, for these services to run through a firewall, you must open the following ports in the firewall rules:
L2TP – User Datagram Protocol (UDP) 500, UDP 1701
NAT-T – UDP 4500
ESP - Internet Protocol (IP) protocol 50
Note: This may affect server configurations for third-party gateways.
NAT-T and Firewall Rulesets
Because the new NAT-T code is designed around the IETF RFC 3193 and draft-02 of the IETF NAT-T specification, for these services to run through a firewall, you must open the following ports in the firewall rules:
Note: This may affect server configurations for third-party gateways.