Monday, August 27, 2012

AnyConnect VPN Client on IOS Router with IOS Zone Based Policy Firewall Configuration Example



In Cisco IOS® Software Release 12.4(20)T and later, a virtual interface SSLVPN-VIF0 was introduced for AnyConnect VPN client connections. But, this SSLVPN-VIF0 interface is an internal interface, which does not support user configurations. This created a problem with AnyConnect VPN and Zone Based Policy Firewall since with the firewall, traffic can only flow between two interfaces when both interfaces belong to security zones. Since the user cannot configure the SSLVPN-VIF0 interface to make it a zone member, VPN client traffic terminated on the Cisco IOS WebVPN gateway after decryption cannot be forwarded to any other interface belonging to a security zone. The symptom of this problem can be seen with this log message reported by the firewall:
*Mar  4 16:43:18.251: %FW-6-DROP_PKT: Dropping icmp session 192.168.1.12:0 192.168.10.1:0 due to One of the interfaces not being cfged for zoning with ip ident 0
This issue was later addressed in newer software releases of Cisco IOS. With the new code, the user can assign a security zone to a virtual-template interface, which is referenced under the WebVPN context, in order to associate a security zone with the WebVPN context .

 AnyConnect VPN Client on IOS Router with IOS Zone Based Policy Firewall Configuration Example

code:

interface Virtual-Template1
 ip unnumbered Loopback0
 zone-member security inside
 !
!
 
Note: reload the router after the change.  
Cisco SSL-VPN LAN Access with Zone Based Policy Firewall 

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