[ale] VPN Protocol Question

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Thu Apr 16 12:56:32 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 15:40 -0400, Kenneth Ratliff wrote:
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> On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Andrew Grieser wrote:
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> > The VPN server will be on a pfSense box that also does the  
> > following: router, firewall, DHCP server, and DNSmasq.
> > The VPN server will have a "real" IP address (ie: no NAT), but as I  
> > client I expect to be on networks using NAT at least some of the  
> > time. If I am understanding the protocols, I believe this rules out  
> > IPSec. Is this true?

> The use of NAT does not automatically rule out IPSec, but the use of  
> pfSense does. pfSense doesn't support NAT-T (NAT Transversal, which is  
> basically just encapsulating the IPSec packet in a UDP packet), unless  
> that's changed recently.

	This would seem to indicate that pfSense supports NAT-T as of 1.3

	http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=211

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Completed Work

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	10. NAT-Traversal (NAT-T)
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	Looks like somewhere around mid 2008 there.

	Regards,
	Mike
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