Re: [fw-wiz] Followup: An interesting VPN problem

From: Luke Butcher (luke.butcher_at_alphawest.com.au)
Date: 09/03/03

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    To: Jonas Anden <dajudge@home.se>
    Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 08:36:42 +1000
    
    

    On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 01:51, Jonas Anden wrote:.

    > One comment though: I'm also using dhcp relaying for the IP address
    > assignments. Strange enough; the relayed DHCP does *not* go through the
    > tunnel (bypassing routing rules). So I had to set up a two-step
    > relaying; the remote pix relays to the external IP of the local pix,
    > which has relays into the local dhcp server.

    For what it's worth, I have seen problem doing DHCP relay over a VPN
    tunnel.
    After much discussion with Cisco the solution was to upgrade to the
    bleeding edge at the time (12.2.16). That however was on an 803 using
    IOS. There maybe similar problems on the PIXes.

    Also the setup was slightly different to yours in that, at the remote
    end, net traffic was going straight out, the VPN was only for private
    address space. Basically the vpn crypto match was occuring before the
    DHCP broadcast request was converted to a directed broadcast. Hence it
    was being pushed out to the net and never getting a reply.

    Maybe some food for thought.

    Luke Butcher
    Network/Security Consultant

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