Allowing private network inbound

Dec 11, 2005 1 Replies

I've got a situation where I've got a Qwest PRN (Private VPN) network with several sites with addresses 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0. Currently we have a managed firewall solution provided by Qwest but need to replace this with a Cisco Pix for a couple of different reasons. Qwest can turn off NAT and open all ports on their firewall. My issue is that I've always dealt with Pix firewalls when the WAN is on the inside of the Pix. In this scenario, the two other locations will be on the outside of the Pix. How do I allow for this WAN traffic? Do I simply allow all ports for network



192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0 in an access list on the Pix?

Thanks for any help, Max


If you are using PIX 6.x, you have two choices:

(1) sysopt connection permit-ipsec

This will permit all ipsec traffic (that authenticated properly!) to access any inside host, with no access checking.

(2) configure your outside access list (and your inside one, if you have one) to explicitly permit the flows from 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0 that you want to allow.

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