Concepts / Forwarding

Forwarding

Asymmetric routing

Also called return path

Traffic there and back taking different paths, because each router picks its own way out.

Normal on the internet and common inside companies. It confuses traceroutes (which only show one direction) and stateful firewalls that see only half of a connection.

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