<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Tobias,</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Also, FYI: </font><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Looks like the Second Solution is Not working. Even though I configured /etc/strongswan.conf with charon.keep_alive = 0 on both initiator and responder, it looks like this configuration is Not reflecting at all. Still I see Keep-alive Packets are going over Standard NAT-T Ports every 10 seconds. (Initiator Strongswan - 5.0.1 & Receiver Strongswan - 5.1.0)</span><br>
</div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Please let me know if there is any other way to control this !!!</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thanks for your Time. </font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">-Best Regards,</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">VKS.</font></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Kesava Srinivas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keshavsrinu@gmail.com" target="_blank">keshavsrinu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thanks Tobias for the response. </font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Yes. Your Guess was Correct. For the Control traffic , still the standard Ports remains same (4500-4500). No Source Port Change for them. This NAT Mapping was happening only for specific Traffic (Ex: ssh,http,ftp etc) . We have a Kernel space Module written on Router (linux machine) to identify the SSH Traffic (using iptables Mark etc.. ) and then over writing the NAT-T header's source port from 4500 to 1003. </font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Now inorder to handle this scenario where Control Traffic (Keep-alives) will still go over 4500-4500 and Data Traffic will have a source port change , whats the possible tweak that we can do in strongswan or Linux kernel !!! Thinking of two feasible solutions here...</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1] Can't it handle parallely both the Traffic ? 1]4500-4500 2]1003-4500</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2] C</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">ontrolling the keepalives to be delayed further (from 10secs to some 40-50 secs) in such a way that meanwhile communcation happens with Port 1003.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please let me know of any more solutions to handle this scenario in the best way!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">-Best Regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">VKS.</span></div>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Tobias Brunner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tobias@strongswan.org" target="_blank">tobias@strongswan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<div><br>
> Does that mean., Target Router's strongswan not handling this Changed<br>
> packet correctly ?<br>
<br>
</div>No, the daemon correctly updates the two SAs:<br>
<br>
> Aug 14 18:55:23 01[KNL] NAT mappings of ESP CHILD_SA with SPI c22c81c5 and reqid {1} changed, queuing update job<br>
> ...<br>
> Aug 14 18:55:23 10[KNL] updating SAD entry with SPI c22c81c5 from 192.168.3.128[4500]..10.10.0.130[4500] to 192.168.3.128[1003]..10.10.0.130[4500]<br>
> ...<br>
> Aug 14 18:55:23 10[KNL] updating SAD entry with SPI c41a180e from 10.10.0.130[4500]..192.168.3.128[4500] to 10.10.0.130[4500]..192.168.3.128[1003]<br>
<br>
But the problem is that after the update an IKE packet is actually<br>
received from port 4500, not 1003, which reverts those updates:<br>
<br>
> Aug 14 18:55:32 11[NET] received packet: from 192.168.3.128[4500] to 10.10.0.130[4500] (76 bytes)<br>
> ...<br>
> Aug 14 18:55:32 11[KNL] updating SAD entry with SPI c22c81c5 from 192.168.3.128[1003]..10.10.0.130[4500] to 192.168.3.128[4500]..10.10.0.130[4500]<br>
> ...<br>
> Aug 14 18:55:32 11[KNL] updating SAD entry with SPI c41a180e from 10.10.0.130[4500]..192.168.3.128[1003] to 10.10.0.130[4500]..192.168.3.128[4500]<br>
<br>
And such packets continue to arrive from port 4500:<br>
<br>
> Aug 14 18:55:42 12[NET] received packet: from 192.168.3.128[4500] to 10.10.0.130[4500] (76 bytes)<br>
<br>
So how exactly did you force the change of the NAT mapping? It seems it<br>
doesn't apply to all the traffic.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Tobias<br>
<br>
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