These are the steps involved in the configuration, hopefully this will help someone else or myself in the future.
In my particular case, the remote end uses certificates for the VPN and has a Certification Authority, so first we have to generate a certificate and ask them to sign it, the CSR can be generated on the IOS but for backup purposes I always tend to use openssl, that way if the router/firewall dies, we have backups:
openssl req -new -nodes -keyout example.key -out example.csr
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to 'example.key'
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You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:
Locality Name (eg, city) []:
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:
Email Address []:
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
Now that the CSR its done, the CA has to sign it.
After the CA does the signing, we need to import the certificates into the IOS device. There are many ways of doing this, but I prefer the PKCS#12 method since it's self-contained and simpler.
To use PKCS#12, we need to create the p12 file, I do this with openssl:
openssl pkcs12 -export -in example.cer -inkey example.key -certfile ca.cer -name "name" -out example.p12
Enter Export Password:
Verifying - Enter Export Password:
Now that we have the certificate signed and in PKCS#12 format, we have to import it to the IOS device, for that we have to create a pki trustpoint:
R1(config)#crypto pki trustpoint EXAMPLE-VPN
R1(ca-trustpoint)#revocation-check none
With the trustpoint created, we can import the certificate. There are several methods, I use TFTP:
R1(config)#crypto ca import EXAMPLE-VPN pkcs12 tftp: PASSWORD
% Importing pkcs12…
Address or name of remote host []? 1.1.1.1
Source filename [trustpoint]? example.p12
Reading file from tftp://1.1.1.1/example.p12
Loading example.p12 from 1.1.1.1 (via FastEthernet0/0): !
[OK - 1245 bytes]
CRYPTO_PKI: Imported PKCS12 file successful
We can verify that everything was imported correctly with the commands:
show crypto pki trustpoints
show crypto pki certificates
Now that the certificates are out of the way, we can focus on the VPN configuration itself.
The tunnel parameters for this example are:
IKE Phase 1
- Encryption 3DES
- Hash SHA
- DH-Group 2
IKE Phase 2
- ESP-3DES-MD5
- Local Network: 192.168.2.1/32
- Remote Network: 192.168.1.0/24
IKE Phase 1:
crypto isakmp policy 1
encr 3des
authentication rsa-sig
hash sha
group 2
This can be verified using show crypto isakmp policy
Transform-Set(s):
crypto ipsec transform-set TRANSFORM-SET-NAME esp-3des esp-md5-hmac
This can be verified using show crypto ipsec transform-set
Interesting traffic and NATing the source:
Lets assume that my network is 192.168.0.0/24, the remote network 192.168.1.0/24 and that the remote side has told me that all of my traffic has to come from 192.168.2.1
ip access-list extended NAT-IP-VPN
permit ip host 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255
ip nat pool VPN-NAT 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.1 prefix-length 30
ip nat inside source list NAT-IP-VPN pool VPN-NAT overload
ip access-list extended TRAFFIC-VPN
permit ip host 192.168.2.1 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255
Be careful with the NAT because if you have more than one statement the order matters. This can be verified using show ip nat translations, show access-lists
Crypto Map:
This is where we put it all together for the IKE Phase 2
crypto map VPN-Map-1 10 ipsec-isakmp
set peer 1.1.1.1
set security-association lifetime seconds 86400
set transform-set TRANSFORM-SET-NAME
match address TRAFFIC-VPN
Apply the crypto map/nat on the interfaces:
interface FastEthernet0/0
description LAN
ip nat inside
interface ATM0.1 point-to-point
description WAN
ip nat outside
crypto map VPN-Map-1
Verification:
Now all we have to do is generate interesting traffic and test what happens, some useful commands are show crypto isakmp sa and show crypto ipsec sa.
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