[strongSwan] VTI device and strongswan ikev2 issue

Miroslav Hostinsky bman at tls.sk
Wed Nov 22 21:10:22 CET 2017


Hello,

I am not sure if I understand you, but source IP of the outgoing packets 
on vti1 are right for me (it was always 95.115.254.161).

# ip a s vti1
5: vti1 at NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1480 qdisc noqueue 
state UNKNOWN qlen 1
     link/ipip 10.198.54.208 peer 95.115.254.165
     inet 95.115.254.161/32 scope global vti1
        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever


current ipv4 routing table is following (I simplified my configuration, 
removed second physical interface, removed default route):

# ip -4 r s table all
8.8.8.8 via 10.198.54.1 dev eth0
10.198.54.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.198.54.208 metric 
100
95.115.254.165 via 10.198.54.1 dev eth0
195.210.28.0/24 dev vti1 scope link
broadcast 10.198.54.0 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope link src 
10.198.54.208
local 10.198.54.208 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope host src 
10.198.54.208
broadcast 10.198.54.255 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope link src 
10.198.54.208
local 95.115.254.161 dev vti1 table local proto kernel scope host src 
95.115.254.161
broadcast 127.0.0.0 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 
127.0.0.1
local 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 
127.0.0.1
local 127.0.0.1 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1
broadcast 127.255.255.255 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 
127.0.0.1

There is the static route 195.210.28.0/24 via vti1. If I do “ping 
195.210.28.63” I can see using tcpdump on vti1 following output:

# tcpdump -i vti1 -n
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol 
decode
listening on vti1, link-type RAW (Raw IP), capture size 262144 bytes
20:08:07.776307 IP 95.115.254.161 > 195.210.28.63: ICMP echo request, id 
1098, seq 480, length 64
20:08:08.776218 IP 95.115.254.161 > 195.210.28.63: ICMP echo request, id 
1098, seq 481, length 64
20:08:09.776228 IP 95.115.254.161 > 195.210.28.63: ICMP echo request, id 
1098, seq 482, length 64
20:08:10.776196 IP 95.115.254.161 > 195.210.28.63: ICMP echo request, id 
1098, seq 483, length 64


I can see there, that source IP is 95.115.254.161, so right IP address. 
This flow is running over IKEv2 tunnel.

If I do tcpdump on underlying eth0 device:

# tcpdump -i eth0 -n udp
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol 
decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 
bytes
20:09:31.778294 IP 10.198.54.208.ipsec-nat-t > 
95.115.254.165.ipsec-nat-t: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xc39fd86f,seq=0x234), 
length 136
20:09:31.792601 IP 95.115.254.165.ipsec-nat-t > 
10.198.54.208.ipsec-nat-t: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xc69deaf7,seq=0x24c), 
length 136
20:09:32.131698 IP 95.115.254.165.ipsec-nat-t > 
10.198.54.208.ipsec-nat-t: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xc69deaf7,seq=0x24d), 
length 104
20:09:32.778291 IP 10.198.54.208.ipsec-nat-t > 
95.115.254.165.ipsec-nat-t: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xc39fd86f,seq=0x235), 
length 136
20:09:32.792787 IP 95.115.254.165.ipsec-nat-t > 
10.198.54.208.ipsec-nat-t: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xc69deaf7,seq=0x24e), 
length 136
20:09:33.778217 IP 10.198.54.208.ipsec-nat-t > 
95.115.254.165.ipsec-nat-t: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xc39fd86f,seq=0x236), 
length 136
20:09:33.792943 IP 95.115.254.165.ipsec-nat-t > 
10.198.54.208.ipsec-nat-t: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xc69deaf7,seq=0x24f), 
length 136

I guess that 10.198.54.208->95.115.254.165 is ICMP echo request (which I 
see on vti1 when doing tcpdump) and 95.115.254.165->10.198.54.208 is 
ICMP echo reply (this I only guess, but there is no other traffic than 
this ICMP flow).


For reference I am pasting statusall outout:

# strongswan statusall
Status of IKE charon daemon (strongSwan 5.5.3, Linux 
3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64, x86_64):
   uptime: 18 minutes, since Nov 22 19:59:23 2017
   malloc: sbrk 2859008, mmap 0, used 562720, free 2296288
   worker threads: 11 of 16 idle, 5/0/0/0 working, job queue: 0/0/0/0, 
scheduled: 2
   loaded plugins: charon aes des rc2 sha2 sha1 md4 md5 random nonce x509 
revocation constraints acert pubkey pkcs1 pkcs8 pkcs12 pgp dnskey sshkey 
pem openssl gcrypt fips-prf gmp curve25519 xcbc cmac hmac ctr ccm gcm 
curl attr kernel-netlink resolve socket-default farp stroke vici updown 
eap-identity eap-md5 eap-gtc eap-mschapv2 eap-tls eap-ttls eap-peap 
xauth-generic xauth-eap xauth-pam xauth-noauth dhcp unity
Listening IP addresses:
   10.198.54.208
   95.115.254.161
Connections:
      alconet:  %any...ipsec.server.sk  IKEv2, dpddelay=30s
      alconet:   local:  [bmanovic] uses EAP authentication with EAP 
identity '%any'
      alconet:   remote: [ipsec.server.sk] uses public key authentication
      alconet:   child:  dynamic === 0.0.0.0/0 ::/0 TUNNEL, 
dpdaction=restart
Security Associations (1 up, 0 connecting):
      alconet[1]: ESTABLISHED 18 minutes ago, 
10.198.54.208[bmanovic]...95.115.254.165[ipsec.server.sk]
      alconet[1]: IKEv2 SPIs: aac4fe8159ef3f03_i* d183908ac6976b91_r, 
rekeying disabled
      alconet[1]: IKE proposal: 
AES_CBC_128/HMAC_SHA2_256_128/PRF_HMAC_SHA2_256/CURVE_25519
      alconet{1}:  INSTALLED, TUNNEL, reqid 1, ESP in UDP SPIs: 
c69deaf7_i c39fd86f_o, IPCOMP CPIs: 9858_i 7f79_o
      alconet{1}:  AES_CBC_128/HMAC_SHA2_256_128, 0 bytes_i, 91560 
bytes_o (1090 pkts, 1s ago), rekeying disabled
      alconet{1}:   95.115.254.161/32 === 0.0.0.0/0

As I wrote above, I simplified my configuration, but the result is the 
same. It doesn't work.

Do you still think, that this is that source IP issue?

Thank you for your help,

BR,
Miroslav

On 2017-11-22 19:22, Noel Kuntze wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The route over the VTI device does not indicate a preferred source IP,
> so the kernel takes the one from the default route, which is in term
> deferred from the route to 10.198.54.0/24,
> which is 10.198.54.208. I'm pretty sure running tcpdump on the VTI
> device confirms that. So the source IP is wrong, as I wrote before.
> You need to set the virtual IP as source IP in your updown script.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Noel
> 
> On 22.11.2017 18:49, Miroslav Hostinsky wrote:
>> Hello Noel,
>> 
>> I do not know what you exactly mean, but the source IP send over VTI 
>> interface is the same as configured on VTI interface (95.115.254.161 
>> in this case). As I wrote, I can see that ICMP echo request & reply 
>> are delivered to this IPSEC endpoint machine (but I only suppose, 
>> because packets are encrypted when sniffing using tcpdump, but there 
>> is no other ICMP traffic). It seems that encrypted echo-reply is 
>> delivered to the machine, but  "kernel/ipsec stack" is not able to 
>> properly "route" to the VTI device.
>> 
>> Actually my IPSEC/*swan knowledge is not very good so sorry if my 
>> answer are dumb.
>> 
>> I am attaching logs/configs as you requested.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> BR,
>> Miroslav
>> 
>> On 2017-11-22 17:41, Noel Kuntze wrote:
>>> Hello Miroslav,
>>> 
>>> I suspect that the policy lookup for the received packets fail. Check
>>> what the source of the packets is that you send over the vti device.
>>> Anyway, please provide the full list of information from the
>>> HelpRequests[1] page.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HelpRequests
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> 
>>> Noel
>>> 
>>> On 22.11.2017 16:47, Miroslav Hostinsky wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I have an issue configuring StrongSwan with VTI interface as 
>>>> roadwarrior. This is my configuration:
>>>> 
>>>> ipsec.conf:
>>>> 
>>>> config setup
>>>> 
>>>> conn %default
>>>>   keyexchange=ikev2
>>>>   ikelifetime=60m
>>>>   keylife=20m
>>>>   rekeymargin=3m
>>>>   rekey=no
>>>>   dpdaction=restart
>>>>   dpddelay=30s
>>>>   compress=yes
>>>>   auto=start
>>>> 
>>>> conn acnnet
>>>>   leftupdown=/usr/local/sbin/ipsec-notify.sh
>>>>   left=%defaultroute
>>>>   leftauth=eap
>>>>   leftsourceip=%config4,%config6
>>>>   rightauth=pubkey
>>>>   rightsubnet=0.0.0.0/0,::/0
>>>>   eap_identity=%identity
>>>>   leftid=bman
>>>>   right=mailer.domena.sk
>>>>   rightid=@mailer.mailer.sk
>>>>   mark=28
>>>> 
>>>> VTI interface is configured using lefupdown script (real commands 
>>>> executed):
>>>> 
>>>> ip tunnel add vti1 local 85.105.254.225 remote 185.210.28.63 mode 
>>>> vti key 28 ikey 28
>>>> ip link set vti1 up
>>>> ip addr add 192.168.228.10 dev vti1
>>>> ip route add 74.99.179.0/24 dev vti1
>>>> sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.vti1.disable_policy=1
>>>> 
>>>> It seems that outgoing connection via vti1 interface is working 
>>>> (outgoing ICMP echo request to subnet 74.99.179.0/24 ). But I am 
>>>> unable to receive ICMP echo reply. Using tcpdump I can clearly see, 
>>>> that IPSEC encrypted ICMP echo reply is returning via physical 
>>>> interface, but not via vti1.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I found, that, TX bytes is correctly counted via vti1, but RX shows 
>>>> errors (it seems that each ICMP echo reply packet is counted as +1 
>>>> error):
>>>> 
>>>> # ip -s tunnel show
>>>> vti1: ip/ip  remote 185.210.28.63  local 85.105.254.225 ttl inherit  
>>>> key 28
>>>> RX: Packets    Bytes        Errors CsumErrs OutOfSeq Mcasts
>>>>     0          0            805    0        0 0
>>>> TX: Packets    Bytes        Errors DeadLoop NoRoute NoBufs
>>>>     401        68170        0      0        0 0
>>>> ip_vti0: ip/ip  remote any  local any  ttl inherit nopmtudisc key 0
>>>> RX: Packets    Bytes        Errors CsumErrs OutOfSeq Mcasts
>>>>     0          0            0      0        0 0
>>>> TX: Packets    Bytes        Errors DeadLoop NoRoute NoBufs
>>>>     0          0            0      0        0 0
>>>> 
>>>> It seems that, RX Errors on vti1 are currently missing ICMP echo 
>>>> reply packets. But is counted as RX errors, not RX received packets.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have any idea what's wrong?
>>>> 
>>>> I am using Centos 7.4 with strongswan-5.5.3-1.el7.x86_64 from EPEL. 
>>>> A tried with same result on Archlinux (kernel 4.9 and strongswan 
>>>> 5.6.0).
>>>> 
>>>> Route installation is disabled in charon.conf.
>>>> 
>>>> Normal connection using Virtual IP is working great.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you very much for any help.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> BR,
>>>> 
>>>> Miroslav
>> 

-- 
Miroslav Hostinsky


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