How to ping the Pix 501 inside interface

Hi,
I'm a newbye with Pix 501.

I have the following problem:
I have a main network in our office with a Cisco Vpn 3005 concentrator
and a remote office with a Cisco Pix 501.
We have configured a Lan to lan ipsec tunnel between the 2 networks
and everything works fine, but I cannot ping from my primary network
(which is also behind a Checkpoint firewall) the inside interface of
the pix (10.9.1.1) while I can ping (after that the tunnel goes on)
every Pc located on the remote office behind the pix.
Moreover, from every Pc of the remote network I can access the
services in my Primary network that I have opened on the firewall and
I can ping the pc in my primary network, but if I try to ping the
primary network from the inside interface of the pix using the pdm,
the ping doesn't go!
Is this a normal behaviour or there is something missconfigured that I
cannot see in my configuration?
Thanks for your help.

Gianluigi

Here is the Pix configuration with some ip changes:

Building configuration...
: Saved
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PIX Version 6.3(3)
interface ethernet0 auto
interface ethernet1 100full
nameif ethernet0 outside security0
nameif ethernet1 inside security100
enable password xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx encrypted
passwd xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx encrypted
hostname Pix
domain-name xxxxxxxxxxx
fixup protocol dns maximum-length 512
fixup protocol ftp 21
fixup protocol h323 h225 1720
fixup protocol h323 ras 1718-1719
fixup protocol http 80
fixup protocol rsh 514
fixup protocol rtsp 554
fixup protocol sip 5060
fixup protocol sip udp 5060
fixup protocol skinny 2000
fixup protocol smtp 25
fixup protocol sqlnet 1521
fixup protocol tftp 69
names
name xxx.xxx.0.0 NetPrimary
name 10.9.0.0 NetPix
access-list inside_outbound_nat0_acl permit ip NetPix 255.255.0.0
NetPrimary 255.255.0.0
access-list outside_cryptomap_20 permit ip NetPix 255.255.0.0
NetPrimary 255.255.0.0
access-list outside_access_in permit ip NetPrimary 255.255.0.0 NetPix
255.255.0.0
pager lines 24
logging on
mtu outside 1500
mtu inside 1500
ip address outside yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy 255.255.255.248
ip address inside 10.9.1.1 255.255.0.0
ip audit info action alarm
ip audit attack action alarm
pdm logging informational 100
pdm history enable
arp timeout 14400
nat (inside) 0 access-list inside_outbound_nat0_acl
access-group outside_access_in in interface outside
route outside 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz 1 (comment:
zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz is the ip address of the router towards internet)
timeout xlate 0:05:00
timeout conn 1:00:00 half-closed 0:10:00 udp 0:02:00 rpc 0:10:00 h225
1:00:00
timeout h323 0:05:00 mgcp 0:05:00 sip 0:30:00 sip_media 0:02:00
timeout uauth 0:05:00 absolute
aaa-server TACACS+ protocol tacacs+
aaa-server RADIUS protocol radius
aaa-server LOCAL protocol local
http server enable
http ???.???.???.??? 255.255.255.255 outside
no snmp-server location
no snmp-server contact
snmp-server community public
no snmp-server enable traps
floodguard enable
sysopt connection permit-ipsec
crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-3DES-MD5 esp-3des esp-md5-hmac
crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-3DES-SHA esp-3des esp-sha-hmac
crypto map outside_map 20 ipsec-isakmp
crypto map outside_map 20 match address outside_cryptomap_20
crypto map outside_map 20 set peer nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
crypto map outside_map 20 set transform-set ESP-3DES-MD5
crypto map outside_map interface outside
isakmp enable outside
isakmp key ******** address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn netmask 255.255.255.255
no-xauth no-config-mode
isakmp nat-traversal 20
isakmp policy 20 authentication pre-share
isakmp policy 20 encryption 3des
isakmp policy 20 hash md5
isakmp policy 20 group 2
isakmp policy 20 lifetime 86400
telnet timeout 5
ssh timeout 5
console timeout 0
terminal width 80
Cryptochecksum:7e21083b04c2e47e80fa8f7c7de23a66
: end
[OK]

 

:I'm a newbye with Pix 501.

:We have configured a Lan to lan ipsec tunnel between the 2 networks
:and everything works fine, but I cannot ping from my primary network
which is also behind a Checkpoint firewall) the inside interface of
:the pix (10.9.1.1) while I can ping (after that the tunnel goes on)
:every Pc located on the remote office behind the pix.

You can only ever ping the "closest" interface to you, the one where
the packets enter the PIX. Thus from the outside, you cannot ping
the inside interface.

If, for some reason, you *really* need to do this, then you can
configure a second VPN and designate it as a "management interface".
There are two modes in which IPSec can operate, "transport" and
"tunnel". Normal PIX IPSec connections use the mode that allows traffic
to pass on beyond the "security gateway" (the PIX); when you
designate a "management interface", you get the other kind of
connection that treats the PIX as a host that traffic must terminate at,
and that connection can be used to ping the inside interface of the
PIX (and do some PDM work, and can't do very much else.)

 

To ping the pix inside ip address from the other side of the tunnel, you
will need to enable "management-access inside".

As far as pinging from the pix, you would need to create an IPSEC SA that
contains the pix outside ip address since the source of the ICMP packet will
be the outside interface address.

Generally speaking, your are seeing default behavior.


Rik Bain

 

see Cisco CCO document "Handling ICMP Pings with the PIX Firewall" :

http://cco.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a0080094e8a.shtml

 

It helps.
Thanks to all.
Have a nice day.

Gianluigi