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      YoungPeach
      last edited by

      Hey there!

      I'm trying to set up an IPSec VTI To EdgeRouter and I'm having some trouble.

      I've read through:
      https://forum.netgate.com/topic/132970/ipsec-vti-tunnels
      https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/9gqy27/pfsense_244_rc_ipsecvti_tunnel_to_edgerouter_lite/
      https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/No-traffic-between-VTI-based-IPsec-pfSense-amp-EdgeRouter-4/m-p/2550383

      And have installed the latest update to ensure the 0.0.0.0/0 route gets passed, but it seems the traffic from the VTI tunnel is not coming in on the ipsec6000 interface, but instead on the enc0 interface.

      I have two VPNs to two different AWS VPCs using BGP and I'm trying to set up the router to use VTI to the pfSense. The following quick diagram is the network:

      0_1541698241708_c50dcb0b-69dd-4131-8945-08bfbe4ee19a-image.png

      The tunnel has come up just fine on both sides and I can see traffic coming from the EdgeRouter, but I cannot get traffic to return from the pfSense. The pfSense when pinging the router states "sendto: Network is down".

      0_1541698347598_788be972-797c-4388-9c74-4817830cff1b-image.png

      Packet Cap on enc0 while pinging from router - the filter is for the firewall address, the packets are router > firewall:
      0_1541699098845_db66ff4d-fdbb-4e29-8448-ae202eea001f-image.png

      Here's the config on pfSense:

      Phase 1 - 0.0.0.0 as our endpoints are dynamic addressing:
      0_1541698414484_983c3b4b-d164-4b4e-aef4-a238f03f1baa-image.png
      0_1541698440010_8773f608-2291-444d-9420-414956e306e5-image.png

      Phase 2:
      0_1541698645897_d529dcf0-22cf-4299-a3f7-6198da5fb7aa-image.png
      0_1541698694785_84b6f303-03a3-4f72-a436-c06f98a1c9fe-image.png

      Interface:
      0_1541698475740_1ef9c0b5-45c0-484e-95dc-53e3f5f85903-image.png

      Route exists (.1 is firewall, .2 is router)
      0_1541698750765_171d90fc-e290-4db3-9fa0-a189c4303577-image.png

      IPSec Status:
      0_1541698810843_eeb07c80-645c-4ff6-8509-2f36177b5c35-image.png

      EdgeRouter Config (this editor is removing the tabs from config FYI so I had to use a snip):
      0_1541699394534_3ed2deb8-05b2-438b-8f87-3f5800bd45b3-image.png

      0_1541699440814_ce466e7f-3dec-410f-86a9-a9a72c32a934-image.png

      EdgeRouter SA:
      router:~$ show vpn ipsec sa
      peer-x.x.x.x-tunnel-vti: #1, ESTABLISHED, IKEv2, c895d3a75e6e4420:90d85a4da8e97efa
      local 'x' @ x.x.x.x
      remote 'x' @ x.x.x.x
      AES_CBC-256/HMAC_SHA2_256_128/PRF_HMAC_SHA2_256/MODP_2048
      established 366s ago, rekeying in 85359s, reauth in 84810s
      peer-x.x.x.x-tunnel-vti: #1, INSTALLED, TUNNEL-in-UDP, ESP:AES_CBC-128/HMAC_MD5_96
      installed 366 ago, rekeying in 41775s, expires in 42834s
      in c4efe5c3, 0 bytes, 0 packets
      out c475dda7, 33456 bytes, 400 packets, 0s ago
      local 0.0.0.0/0
      remote 0.0.0.0/0

      Any help would be appreciated! I have a little over 200 sites to deploy. :)

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        YoungPeach
        last edited by

        • correction:

        And have installed the latest update to ensure the 0.0.0.0/0 route gets passed, but it seems the traffic from the VTI tunnel is not coming in on the ipsec6000 interface, but is on the enc0 interface.

        The documentation states the OS should see traffic on both interfaces.

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          YoungPeach
          last edited by

          Upon further investigation I've noticed the following:

          0_1541778315703_30b8630c-5c3e-4452-a284-e5028ed51851-image.png

          The interface is not showing a 'running' status, which explains my problem. Now to find out how to resolve it.

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            YoungPeach
            last edited by

            To answer my own question now:

            VTI tunnels cannot be set up with 0.0.0.0 as the remote peer, you must use an IP address or domain name.

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