Cisco Systems IPSec VPN through NAT

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IPSec VPN through NAT Jaime 01-24-06
Posted by Jaime on January 24, 2006, 4:19 pm
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Hi all,

I do need a solution to create VPN between 70 remote sites and a central
site, all equiped with Cisco IOS routers.
On the way from the remote sites to the central site, a NAT does change
remote sites IP addresses to a unique IP.
As far as I know, the NAT then makes impossible to use PSKEY to match key
with the remote IP address, as all remote sites are seen as the same IP
address from central site.

¿ Any solution can be implemented for this ?

Thanks and regards



Posted by stl-eng on January 25, 2006, 12:41 pm
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If you know what the particulare remote is being nated to then your
host key can be to that natted device. for instance say remote is a
dsl with 1 to 1 translation your remote cisco is 192.168.1.10 but when
it moves through the dsl router ie a netopia the netopia translates it
to 65.5.5.5 you need what is called NAT-T on your routers enabled this
is done by having recent code on it. It was introduced on 12.2(13T)
also may wish to add nat keepalive so your translation doesnt timeout
in the Nat device and you lose your tunnel. If the device in the middle
is running PAT and not NAT then you have bigger problems with esp.
Possibel solutions are running ezvpn client server. Honestly best
practice don't deploy your vpn tunnels behind natted devices ever.


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