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Support => VPN Support => Topic started by: trymes on Thursday 12 August 2010, 03:01:47 am



Title: Oddity with IPSec and Green/Blue Zones
Post by: trymes on Thursday 12 August 2010, 03:01:47 am
OK, so I have two IPSec tunnels on my EFW 2.4 firewall. Each goes to a different site, and none of the subnets conflict.

GREEN: 10.1.0.0/16
BLUE: 192.168.1.0/24

Tunnel #1: EFW<-->IPSec<-->Site2<-->192.168.0.1/24
Tunnel #2: EFW<-->IPSec<-->Site1<-->10.3.0.0/16

All was working fine until I added a BLUE Interface on a third NIC. Before, when I only had RED and GREEN, everything worked fine. However, I now have a problem where Tunnel #1 works no matter what, but Tunnel #2 shows as "Link: Up" and "Status: Down" unless I enable the "VPN on BLUE" checkbox. Once I enable VPN on BLUE, everything works again.

This would be all well and good, but I do not want the Blue xone to have access to the VPN tunnels. I suppose I could add rules to the VPN firewall, but it seems to me that this should just work when I uncheck the "VPN on BLUE" box, and I shouldn't need to add any firewall rules.

Let me know if I have made some boneheaded mistake...

Tom