IKEv2 Site-to-Site and MultiWAN on one side
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Hi, I have 2 pfSense XG-7100.
First with 1 WAN and second with 2 WANs.
On Second pfSense I choose to use GWGroup (with failover tier1 and tier2) for IPsec Phase1. On First one I configured remote side as DDNS record of second side.
Issue:
When I have missing main (tier1) WAN on second pfSense IPsec it reconnect to tier2 IP, but it not reconnect back when tier1 begin to be available. pfSense on Second pfSense try speak by WAN1, when First one still try use WAN2 IP for communication even when DDNS was changed back.
This bug or there is another way to do it not by DDNS? -
People??? https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9821
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Redmine topic is closed as not a bug, but no update on forum
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When the tier 1 gateway comes back up the VPN tunnel will not automatically switch back to it as doing so would be needlessly disruptive to traffic when the tier 2 gateway is still passing it.
What I expect to happen in that situation is the tunnel remains on the tier 2 WAN until it is re-established. It will then be re-established on the tier 1 WAN. Is that not what you're seeing?It seems from your description as though the dual WAN end is trying to establish the tunnel again but the other end has not updated the DynDNS entry so it refuses? Have you shown it's still resolving to the tier 2 WAN at that end?
Steve
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@stephenw10 point in that DDNS record actually updated. But not "reloaded". If I run on pfSense nslookup myddns.com 127.0.0.1 it return correct IP, but IPsec service still try connect to incorrect IP. And this will be going even a full day. No way that 5mins (lowest dns.he.net cache avaible) will cache on pfSense for a day. Problem that IPsec service "remember" IP and not try to re-resolve DNS at all even with N100 failing times.
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@stephenw10 stop-start of Phase1/2 not help too, only full restart of IPsec service (including another tunnels as well T__T) will resolve issue with DDNS. Now to have working solution I ignore that I have MultiWAN and listen only 1 WAN which not give 100% uptime unfortunately :(
BTW: Thank you for join the topic -
Does it try to connect out to the wrong IP or just disallow incoming connections from the WAN it's not expecting? Or both I guess?
One thing you can do here it to set the remote gateway to 0.0.0.0/0 and use an identifier type other than IP address. That will allow connections from both WANs but the tunnel can then only ever be established from the multi-wan side.
If you do try that you should check 'Disable Auto-added VPN rules' in Sys > Adv > Firewall and add your own rules to allow the IPSec traffic in from only the two remote WAN IPs. Otherwise the auto rule will allow IPSec connections from any IP. Connections will fail as they won't have the right credentials but the logs will be filled with drive-by connection attempts, potentially.Steve
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@stephenw10 I'm not sure, but I think both: it try connecting to tier2 and at same time it rejecting connection from tier1. Your solution maybe working (looking), but no auto rules will give troubles in future in system with 2+ tunnels and possibility to establish connection in ony one way is not good to. Specialy when I now know that failing of IPsec not trigger smtp notications (which is another issue too). Can this be done by pfSense in more "graceful" way with reload configs at least in future? As guy who closed ticket on redmine says that pfSense work fine with ddns and IPsec and this not issue in pfSense. As far I see it not fine as it must be :(
Could you please describe how this rule looks like? If it simple UDP port 500 then it not so hard.
And big question what if there would be 2 systems with IPsec and multiWAN:(. If reloading of DDNS will work as expected then all be fine, but in your workaround it will not work. Maybe there must not DDNS and must be simple A(AAAA) 2 records for both IPs and it must try communicate to both of them until connection will succeed? -
I believe that I have a similar issue with the IPsec tunnel. My setup is as follow:
main office
Pfsense with Dual WAN. They are configured in a Failover group (Tier1 and 2 ). I have static public IP addresses for both of the WANs.Branch office:
Pfsense with one WAN. It has a static public IP address.I configured one tunnel in the main office that points towards the branch office from the WAN failover group. On the branch office, I set up 2 tunnels one point towards the main WAN in the main office and the other points towards the secondary WAN.
When the main WAN in the main office goes offline, The tunnel will be recreated with the secondary WAN. But when The main WAN comes back online there will be 2 active tunnels from the main and secondary WAN to the branch office. I don't know if this is an issue with my configuration since there is one tunnel in the main firewall and 2 tunnels in the other firewall, or it is only a limited configuration.