FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection

[Gary Gatten]

Its ESP, not EPS.  And NAT traversal / UDP encapsulation is liklely needed, that's the 4500 and 10000 ports.

----- Original Message -----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
To: Bill Tillman <btillman99 at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wed Feb 17 17:17:58 2010
Subject: Re: FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection

Hi--

On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Bill Tillman wrote:
> The tech told me that I need to forward ports 500 and 4500 with my FreeBSD router to the small VPN router inside my LAN. That's simple enought but then he tells me I need to redirect all EPS and all AH traffic as well. I guess this is where FreeBSD+NATD+IPFW hits the wall when working with Cisco or is it? I gotta believe this can work but I don't know how the heck to do it and the tech at our IT consultant is totally lost when it comes to anything besides Cisco equipment.
> Has anyone got a suggestion on how to do a port redirect with natd to pickup these EPS and AH packets. I added some new lines to my /etc/natd.conf file and the AH part seemed ok but the console screen immediately said what the heck is EPS. And worse it did not work. Only when I put the VPN router outside of my existing router does this setup work. I really want to keep this thing inside my LAN or even better would be how do I get my existing router to work as a VPN on it's own?

When I was dealing with the Cisco VPN client, I was doing so with IPFW+natd and you need 500/udp, 4500/udp, 62515/udp, 1723/tcp, 10000/tcp, and the GRE protocol.  In my case, /etc/natd.conf contained:

punch_fw 10000:100
redirect_proto gre 10.1.1.247
redirect_port udp 10.1.1.247:500 500
redirect_port udp 10.1.1.247:4500 4500
redirect_port udp 10.1.1.247:62515 62515
redirect_port tcp 10.1.1.247:10000 10000
redirect_port tcp 10.1.1.247:pptp pptp

...to send the traffic to a VPN endpoint located at IP 10.1.1.247.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

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