Cisco Systems Re: PIX 501 blocking inside to out arp requests

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Re: PIX 501 blocking inside to out arp requests Doug McIntyre 05-20-08
Posted by Doug McIntyre on May 20, 2008, 10:12 am
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>I've got a Cisco PIX 501 that I like to use as my boarder firewall/
>router for my home. However, I have found one situation where I have
>to swap the 501 for a dumb Linksys router/NAT device.

>I work from home as a software consultant, and one of the clients I
>work for has a VPN concentrator that I can not connect to with my PIX
>inline.

>I think I have narrowed it down to the VPN Adapter that is created
>when I connect to their concentrator.

Probably not..

>There is no 'Default Gateway'. With the PIX in line I can not connect
>to their server 192.168.15.2, etc.. With the Linksys in line every
>thing seems to work fine.

Do you have the PIX configured to let IPsec packets through?

sysopt connection permit-ipsec

I'm assuming you are already doing NAT-T on your VPN setup since you
say the Linksys one works.

>I'm guessing (as I'm no network guru) that the Linksys router is
>allowing ARP requests to traverse the device, and the PIX is blocking
>them since there is now pre-defined route, or maybe this guess is way
>off, I don't really know.

Yes, this guess is way off..


Posted by Tyler on May 20, 2008, 10:42 am
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> Do you have the PIX configured to let IPsec packets through?
>
> sysopt connection permit-ipsec
>

I did not have this statement in my config.

However, other sites that I VPN to worked fine, all "seem" to be
configured using IPSec over UDP (NAT / PAT) in the Cisco VPN Client
I'm using to connect to the client through my PIX / Linksys router.

I have added the statement to my PIX, but I haven't had a chance to
test it yet as the PIX is currently not hooked up. I'll give it a
test later today when I disconnect from the client I'm working with.

> I'm assuming you are already doing NAT-T on your VPN setup since you
> say the Linksys one works.
>
> >I'm guessing (as I'm no network guru) that the Linksys router is
> >allowing ARP requests to traverse the device, and the PIX is blocking
> >them since there is now pre-defined route, or maybe this guess is way
> >off, I don't really know.
>
> Yes, this guess is way off..

Thanks

Posted by Tyler on May 21, 2008, 11:47 pm
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Any other ideas?

Posted by Marko Uusitalo on May 22, 2008, 4:00 am
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Tyler kirjoitti:
> Any other ideas?

I the dns server 192.168.1.10 in your network or across the VPN? This
could be the problem. Can you connect using IP addresses only

Regards

Marko

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