[Swan] GW To GW IPSec connection between CheckPoint and Libreswan

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Wed Oct 28 23:44:07 UTC 2015


If your enpoints are on static IP, you should put a type=passthrough in with left/right set to those IP addresses. That will exclude them from being caught in the 0/0, because passthrough has a higher priority.

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> On Oct 28, 2015, at 15:57, Amir Naftali <amir at fortycloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> Thank you for supporting this important opensource initiative. 
> 
> I'm using libreswan(3.15)/netkey running on an AWS/EC2/Ubuntu/14.04 machine  to connect to a CheckPoint device where the CP device is configured to establish an SA per GW (as oppose per subnet pair)
> 
> This means that the negotiated subnets during IPSec phase that the CP devices will send and accept are 0.0.0.0/0 and 0.0.0.0/0
> 
> The connection can be established but once the IPSec phase is complete it will install xfrm policies that will shutdown communication (src 0.0.0.0/0 dst 0.0.0.0/0 [in/out/fwd]...)
> 
> Since libreswan installs xfrm policies automatically I thought to use the leftupdown option to write a script that manage xfrm policies myself (basically allow the wildcard to be negotiated during IPSec phase but afterwards install a more specific xfrm policies so communication will not shutdown.
> 
> My script works fine until IPSec re-key happens, once re-key happens swan installs an xfrm policy w/o making a call to the leftupdown script I provide. The new installed xfrm policy is not complete and looks like this (I call it partial since it only deploy the "out" policy w/o the "in" and "fwd") 
> 
> Here is how the partial policy it looks like 
> 
> src 0.0.0.0/0 dst 0.0.0.0/0
> 	dir out priority 3128
> 	tmpl src <my ip> dst <remote ip>
> 		proto esp reqid 16401 mode tunnel  
> 
> The above policy also shut down my communication to/from the machine.
> 
> Here is my connection config...
> 
> conn connLG
>         connaddrfamily=ipv4
> 	authby=secret
> 	dpdaction=restart_by_peer
> 	dpddelay=30
> 	dpdtimeout=120
> 	forceencaps=yes
> 	ike=aes128-sha1;modp1024
> 	ikelifetime=86400s
> 	keyingtries=3
> 	left=<my ip>
> 	leftid=<mu id>
> 	leftsubnets=0.0.0.0/0
>         leftupdown="/etc/ipsec.d/myUpDown.sh"
> 	pfs=yes
> 	phase2alg=aes128-sha1
> 	right=<right ip>
> 	rightid=<right id>
> 	rightsubnets=0.0.0.0/0
> 	salifetime=180s
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) Is this the right way to do it (how else can i connect to a peer device that negotiates wildcard subnets)?
> 2) How can I better control xfrm policies (there are more options I would like to use like mark and using multiple tmpl in the same policy) that are not supported by libreswan?
> 3) Is the behaviour I described above regarding IPSec re-key and partial xfrm policy instrumentation is a known issue or am I missing something here in how it should work?
> 
> Will appreciate any response regarding this one
>  
> Kind Regards,
> 
> 
> Amir Naftali | CTO and Co-Founder | +972 54 497 2622
> 
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