Manually deleting IPsec VPN load balancing flow rules
Previous versions of FortiOS for FortiGate-6000 and 7000 used load balancing flow rules to handle IPsec VPN traffic. The default versions of these flow rules sent all IPv4 and IPv6 IPsec VPN traffic to the primary (master) FPC or FPM. Enabling IPsec VPN load balancing by enabling the ipsec-load-balance
option of the config load-balance settings
command enabled these flow rules. Disabling IPsec VPN load balancing disabled them.
For FortiOS 6.0.6, you no longer need these flow rules and they should be manually removed after upgrading to FortiOS 6.0.6. Upgrading to FortiOS 6.0.6 does not automatically remove them. For more information, see FortiGate-6000 IPsec VPN load balancing support and FortiGate-7000 IPsec VPN load balancing changes .
Example IPv4 and IPv6 IPsec VPN flow rules that can be removed after upgrading to FortiOS 6.0.6:
edit 18 set status enable set vlan 0 set ether-type ipv6 set src-addr-ipv6 ::/0 set dst-addr-ipv6 ::/0 set protocol udp set src-l4port 0-0 set dst-l4port 500-500 set action forward set forward-slot master set priority 5 set comment "ipv6 ike" next edit 19 set status enable set vlan 0 set ether-type ipv6 set src-addr-ipv6 ::/0 set dst-addr-ipv6 ::/0 set protocol udp set src-l4port 0-0 set dst-l4port 4500-4500 set action forward set forward-slot master set priority 5 set comment "ipv6 ike-natt dst" next edit 20 set status enable set vlan 0 set ether-type ipv6 set src-addr-ipv6 ::/0 set dst-addr-ipv6 ::/0 set protocol esp set action forward set forward-slot master set priority 5 set comment "ipv6 esp" next edit 21 set status enable set vlan 0 set ether-type ipv4 set src-addr-ipv4 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 set dst-addr-ipv4 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 set protocol udp set src-l4port 0-0 set dst-l4port 500-500 set action forward set forward-slot master set priority 5 set comment "ipv4 ike" next edit 22 set status enable set vlan 0 set ether-type ipv4 set src-addr-ipv4 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 set dst-addr-ipv4 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 set protocol udp set src-l4port 0-0 set dst-l4port 4500-4500 set action forward set forward-slot master set priority 5 set comment "ipv4 ike-natt dst" next edit 23 set status enable set vlan 0 set ether-type ipv4 set src-addr-ipv4 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 set dst-addr-ipv4 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 set protocol esp set action forward set forward-slot master set priority 5 set comment "ipv4 esp" next