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iptables drop packets as invalid between 2 end-network connected through VPN

hello everyone,
i am setting up a linux box as router / firewall.currently, im setting up the firewall on that machine..

the situation is :

there are 2 networks, the home network and the work network.

i am connecting the 2 with a vpn connection. the openvpn server is a pc in the home network..

the router/ firewall linux box is another pc in the home network, which i 'inserted' between the ISP modem and the internal switch of my home network.

i have managed to connect the vpn server in the home net to the vpn client at work net and so i can ping directly from the home net (192.168.0.0/24) to the work net (192.168.1.0/24) without using the vpn ip space at all (192.168.150.0/24). which is great..

i did however try to open a remote desktop connection from a home windows pc to a work windows pc and it didnt work. checking the output with dmesg in the firewall linux box it says

Quote:

Invalid packet: IN=eth0 OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.3 DST=192.168.1.107 LEN=59 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=35708 PROTO=TCP SPT=2016 DPT=3389 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0

any ideas why the packet is considered invalid?

EDIT: my FORWARD chain looks like

Quote:

echo "Process FORWARD chain ..."

$IPT -A FORWARD -p ALL -j bad_packets #this is were the problem occurs
$IPT -A FORWARD -p tcp -i $LOCAL_IFACE -j tcp_outbound
$IPT -A FORWARD -p udp -i $LOCAL_IFACE -j udp_outbound
$IPT -A FORWARD -p ALL -i $LOCAL_IFACE -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED \
-j ACCEPT

#traffic from (192.168.150.0/24) and from (192.168.1.0/24)
$IPT -A FORWARD -p tcp -s $VPN_NET -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A FORWARD -p tcp -s $WORK_NET -j ACCEPT

#to listening port ofvpn server
$IPT -A FORWARD -p tcp --destination-port 1194 -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A FORWARD -p udp --destination-port 1194 -j ACCEPT

and bad_packets chain contains the following relevant part

Quote:

# Drop INVALID packets immediately
$IPT -A bad_packets -p ALL -m state --state INVALID -j LOG \
--log-prefix "Invalid packet: "

$IPT -A bad_packets -p ALL -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

so guess i could place the accept rule for the work_net traffic above the -j bad_packets redirection... but i'm not sure this is good practice....

also is there some big security hole in the forward chain that i could do without??

thank you for your help