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Hello all,

I've been configuring Cisco devices in a relatively simple fashions
for years now. However, we've got a customer who bought a Cisco 1841
with the Firewall Feature set, and there are some new commands and
features I'm not used to. Primary I do backbone or distribution layer
configs, not ones on the end so the VPN stuff is new to me as well...

Anyhow, this problem here lies in the firewall blocking VPN traffic.
Right now, as a lab, I've got the WAN port of the router set up with a
xxx.xxx.xxx.158 255.255.255.252 IP address, and the LAN as a
xxx.xxx.xxx.161 255.255.255.224 IP address.

When someone from the outside makes a VPN connection to the router's
WAN IP address, it grabs an address from the pool, and work fine as
long as the firewall is not in place.

Once the firewall is there, the traffic can't make it back in, despite
the fact that the inspect CBAC is suppose to open holes in the
firewall. I get log entires like:

-- Nameserver not able to get it's traffic back:
Jan 11 19:37:45.927: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list 101 denied udp
xxx.xxx.xxx.10(53) -> xxx.xxx.xxx.182(375, 1 packet

-- Hitting Yahoo by IP in browser. Traffic not making it back:
Jan 11 19:37:55.875: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list 101 denied tcp
66.94.230.34(80) -> xxx.xxx.xxx.182(3759), 1 packet

Note that the "xxx.xxx.xxx.182" IP is the IP that was handed to the
VPN
client, but that is ACTUALLY out on the Internet.

I have the feeling that I'm missing something dumb, but I just don't
know. I usually feel pretty adept at these things.

For your inspection, here are the relevant portions of the config.
Also worth noting is that I've let the Cisco SDM write the access list
parts of this. I've also tried it by hand, with no success.

ip inspect name DEFAULT100 cuseeme
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 ftp
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 h323
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 icmp
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 netshow
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 rcmd
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 realaudio
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 rtsp
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 esmtp
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 sqlnet
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 streamworks
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 tftp
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 tcp
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 udp
ip inspect name DEFAULT100 vdolive

interface FastEthernet0/0
description $ETH-WAN$$FW_OUTSIDE$
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.158 255.255.255.252
ip access-group 101 in
ip inspect DEFAULT100 out
crypto map SDM_CMAP_1

interface FastEthernet0/1
description $ETH-LAN$$FW_INSIDE$
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.161 255.255.255.224
ip access-group 100 in

ip local pool SDM_POOL_1 xxx.xxx.xxx.176 xxx.xxx.xxx.183

access-list 100 remark auto generated by SDM firewall configuration
access-list 100 remark SDM_ACL Category=1
access-list 100 deny ip xxx.xxx.xxx.156 0.0.0.3 any
access-list 100 deny ip host 255.255.255.255 any
access-list 100 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
access-list 100 permit ip any any
access-list 101 remark auto generated by SDM firewall configuration
access-list 101 remark SDM_ACL Category=1
access-list 101 permit udp host 207.244.144.10 eq domain host
xxx.xxx.xxx.158
access-list 101 permit udp host 207.244.153.11 eq domain host
xxx.xxx.xxx.158
access-list 101 permit ip xxx.xxx.xxx.176 0.0.0.7 any
access-list 101 remark Auto generated by SDM for NTP (123)
72.36.170.170
access-list 101 permit udp host 72.36.170.170 eq ntp host
xxx.xxx.xxx.158 eq ntp
access-list 101 permit ahp any host xxx.xxx.xxx.158
access-list 101 permit esp any host xxx.xxx.xxx.158
access-list 101 permit udp any host xxx.xxx.xxx.158 eq isakmp
access-list 101 permit udp any host xxx.xxx.xxx.158 eq non500-isakmp
access-list 101 deny ip xxx.xxx.xxx.160 0.0.0.31 any
access-list 101 permit icmp any host xxx.xxx.xxx.158 echo-reply
access-list 101 permit icmp any host xxx.xxx.xxx.158 time-exceeded
access-list 101 permit icmp any host xxx.xxx.xxx.158 unreachable
access-list 101 deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip host 255.255.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip host 0.0.0.0 any
access-list 101 deny ip any any log

I thank anyone for any input they've got.

Thanks much!

Rick Kunkel

Hello Rick,

at first glance I would say that you need to allow UDP port 53 and TCP
port 80 for the IP addresses specified in your local pool SDM_POOL_1 in
your access list 101. Can you try and add this to access list 101:

access-list 101 permit udp x.x.x.176 0.0.0.7 any eq 53
access-list 101 permit tcp x.x.x.176 0.0.0.7 any eq www

and check if that makes a difference ?

Regards,


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