[fw-wiz] Cisco PIX506 problem minxing VPN and NAT

From: Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. (Hons) G8TIC (mike.tubby_at_thorcom.co.uk)
Date: 10/06/03

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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:58:25 +0100

    Hi,

    I've been working with IP and Cisco routers for many years, but
    am now somewhat stuck on a problem involving IPSEC VPN
    tunnels mixed with NAT on a Cisco PIX506E box (firmware 6.2)
    - I'm pretty new to PIX firewalls.

    A simplified network diagram can be found at:

            http://www.tubby.org/cisco/networking/vpn_config.pdf

    where "our site" is local to me and "customer site" is the far end - I
    am not responsible for the equipment at the customer site.

    We have a number of hosts that are on an "inside" LAN segment
    (192.168.10.0/24) for which I need to arrange two things to occur:

    a) they must travel across a 3DES VPN tunnel and land on a Cisco
       3640 at the far end (customer site) and reach other machines on
       10.0.0.0/24 there

    b) they must appear with "real" IP addresses via NAT from our
       internet connection, and there must be a static mapping between
       the public IP address and the internal IP address, for example:

                193.82.116.240 => 192.168.10.240
                193.82.116.241 => 192.168.10.241

       nb. the machines on the "inside" have only the 192.168.10.xxx form
       of address; the PIX506E must NAT each one in and outbound to
       the public internet equivalent 193.82.116.xxx address.

    At our site we have a Cisco 2621 with IP/FW/IDS which is "locked
    down" fairly tightly (port by port ACLs etc.) After some considerable
    fiddling about to open ISAKMP (udp/500) and ESP I've got the
    IPSEC bit working and get the security association etc. all set up between
    the PIX506E and the Customer's 3640 and I can see packets leaving
    correctly when I ping 10.0.0.xx addresses.

    However, there appears to be a problem that the packets that come
    back in from the VPN tunnel, eg. ICMP Echo Reply, these are addressed
    to the 192.168.10.xxx host when leaving the remote machine making the
    reply but appear to get caught up in the NAT that I've configured for
    requirement (b) above - so the PIX appears to NAT the reply packets
    back to 193.82.116.xxx packets when it should have just dropped them
    in the "inside" interface.

    Clearly something isn't right but I'm struggling to find details on the way
    in which VPN and NAT interact inside PIX firewalls.

    Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    Mike Tubby

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