"established" firewall rule and IPSec packets

Hello,

As this is my first post on this forum, please forgive me if I’m making something wrong.

I have two RB2011 routers (6.33 and 6.26 RouterOS installed). I configured GRE over IPSec tunnel between them. And everything is working fine. But… I do not understand, why whole IPSec traffic between these two boxes is handled by such rule:

add chain=input comment="accept established" connection-state=established

Is there any hidden workaround in Mikrotik’s code that silently accept incoming packets when ipsec is configured? :smiley:

Regards,
Konrad