Routed IPsec using if_ipsec VTI interfaces

[obrienmd]

@jimp yep, I think I'm seeing the reqid issue myself. Every few reboots, I get this complaint and no traffic flows:

Jun 5 08:08:59	charon		12[KNL] received an SADB_ACQUIRE with policy id 2 but no matching policy found
Jun 5 08:08:59	charon		12[KNL] creating acquire job for policy {near_wan_ip}/32|/0 === {far_wan_ip}/32|/0 with reqid {0}
Jun 5 08:08:59	charon		14[CFG] trap not found, unable to acquire reqid 0

[jimp]

If it works at all, it probably isn't the same issue. In my case I'm seeing the interface end up with one number but the reqid in the ipsec config has a different number, so no traffic ever reaches the interface due to the mismatch. That should be an all-or-nothing situation.

If you only have one P1/P2 or even only one P2 per P1 then it should be OK as-is, just by coincidence.

[obrienmd]

When I see those errors, it really doesn't work at all. I have connected P1s and P2s, but traffic isn't flowing at all (not the previous situation two posts up).

[jimp]

I just pushed some changes to how the IPsec interfaces are formed. The numbering of the interfaces has changed, so to be safe you should unassign the interface before upgrading. I'll work on some upgrade code in the morning, but it should hopefully now align better in terms of how strongswan forms the reqid vs how the if_ipsec interfaces want it so everything will line up better. I need to do some more testing, but it should be better.

[obrienmd]

Sweet - I'll test as soon as the snapshots show up and let you know how it goes!

I did notice that the official Netgate boxes I'm working with (SG-2440s mostly) seem to "see" snapshots for 2.4.4 later than the community edition installs I'm also testing with.

[jimp]

The factory snapshots happen on a different schedule than the CE snapshots so they won't ever be exactly the same. Close, but not the same. Also depends on how things get merged back into factory and if there are any conflicts.

[jimp]

Looks like it's better and worse. I can pass traffic between the hosts that failed before, but the gateways are not being generated properly so I need to fix that up, so static routes won't work and so on.

I see the code blocks I didn't update to the new style so I'll fix those up in the morning.

[obrienmd]

Thanks Jim!

[jimp]

OK, I just pushed the updated gateway code and it's working well for me now.

I do, however, see the same behavior you did where the firewall can't reach a routed network on the far side using the ipsec interface address as the source. It does work if I set the source to be the LAN, however.

Using the ipsecX interface address as the source:

: ping -S 10.6.106.1 10.7.0.1
PING 10.7.0.1 (10.7.0.1) from 10.6.106.1: 56 data bytes
^C
--- 10.7.0.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

Going LAN to LAN from the firewall:

: ping -S 10.6.0.1 10.7.0.1
PING 10.7.0.1 (10.7.0.1) from 10.6.0.1: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.7.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.802 ms
64 bytes from 10.7.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.883 ms
64 bytes from 10.7.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.716 ms
^C
--- 10.7.0.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

Routes all look correct, on the source node traffic appears on the ipsecX and enc0 interface but the counters on the child SA do not increase and no ESP leaves, so somehow it isn't making its way to that connection. I'll keep poking at it, but it's not the end of the world since the same situation also didn't work on plain IPsec, though we hoped routed IPsec would be a cure for that.

[jimp]

Since that firewall-to-LAN routing issue is not a flaw in the VTI code that I can see, I've split that off into https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8551

[obrienmd]

Makes perfect sense to me - as soon as the daily build hits pfSense factory -devel, I'll start testing again!

[jimp]

OK, I think I have that nailed down. Apparently it does not get along with pf route-to directly on the interface. It works fine for LAN traffic but not traffic exiting from the firewall itself. I pushed a fix, should be in snaps soonish.

[obrienmd]

Cool, thanks!

Question - and this might be sacrilege - can I set my Factory boxes to download CE snapshots? I poked around repos but when it looks like just swapping the pfSense.conf one didn't really work out on a test box :)

[jimp]

@obrienmd said in Routed IPsec using if_ipsec VTI interfaces:

Cool, thanks!

Question - and this might be sacrilege - can I set my Factory boxes to download CE snapshots? I poked around repos but when it looks like just swapping the pfSense.conf one didn't really work out on a test box :)

Not easily, several things need adjusted and it's just not worth the hassle to downgrade like that in-place. All the changes I made today, including the fix for that route-to issue, have been synchronized to Factory so it should show up in snapshots for both CE and Factory by the morning.

[obrienmd]

Much appreciated.

This is going to help in a lot of places... Now I just have to get Verizon to terminate mobile private network tunnels as VTI :) Wish me luck...

[obrienmd]

Hrm, with the new devel builds, phase 1s are coming up (and SAs show, with no inbound traffic), and I'm seeing this in ipsec logs, I think the key lines being SADB_ACQUIRE and 'unable to acquire reqid'.

CARP is enabled on WANs of one of the sides, and I'm using the CARP IP for 'Interface' on the P1 locally and 'remote gateway' on the P1 remotely. Might this have something to do with it?

The other pair I've been testing most with is that where one side is factory, and we had some success earlier, but neither side is HA/CARP. I'll be testing again with that one today as soon as factory images come out.

Jun 8 05:18:00	charon		10[CFG] vici client 360 registered for: list-sa
Jun 8 05:18:00	charon		10[CFG] vici client 360 requests: list-sas
Jun 8 05:18:00	charon		10[CFG] vici client 360 disconnected
Jun 8 05:18:00	charon		10[KNL] received an SADB_ACQUIRE with policy id 2 but no matching policy found
Jun 8 05:18:00	charon		10[KNL] creating acquire job for policy {local_wan_ip}/32|/0 === {remote_wan_ip}/32|/0 with reqid {0}
Jun 8 05:18:00	charon		15[CFG] trap not found, unable to acquire reqid 0
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[KNL] <con2|2> querying policy {local_tunnel_ip}/32|/0 === {remote_tunnel_ip}/32|/0 in failed, not found
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[KNL] <con2|2> querying policy {remote_tunnel_ip)/32|/0 === {local_tunnel_ip}/32|/0 in failed, not found
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[IKE] <con2|2> sending DPD request
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[IKE] <con2|2> queueing IKE_DPD task
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[IKE] <con2|2> activating new tasks
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[IKE] <con2|2> activating IKE_DPD task
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[ENC] <con2|2> generating INFORMATIONAL request 253 [ ]
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		15[NET] <con2|2> sending packet: from {local_ip}[500] to {remote_ip}[500] (76 bytes)
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		10[NET] <con2|2> received packet: from {remote_ip)[500] to {local_ip}[500] (76 bytes)
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		10[ENC] <con2|2> parsed INFORMATIONAL response 253 [ ]
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		10[IKE] <con2|2> activating new tasks
Jun 8 05:18:03	charon		10[IKE] <con2|2> nothing to initiate

[jimp]

Granted I haven't tried it on an HA pair but nothing has changed in a couple days that would affect that. When was the last snapshot you had working there?

Can you show the conXXXX entry from /var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.conf for that tunnel?

[obrienmd]

Non-HA side:

conn con2
        fragmentation = yes
        keyexchange = ikev2
        reauth = yes
        forceencaps = no
        mobike = no

        rekey = yes
        installpolicy = no

        dpdaction = restart
        dpddelay = 10s
        dpdtimeout = 60s
        auto = start
        left = {non_ha_side_wan_ip}
        right = {ha_side_wan_ip}
        leftid = {non_ha_side_wan_ip}
        ikelifetime = 28800s
        lifetime = 3600s
        ike = aes256-sha1-modp1024!
        esp = aes256gcm128-sha256-modp2048,aes256gcm96-sha256-modp2048,aes256gcm64-sha256-modp2048!
        leftauth = psk
        rightauth = psk
        rightid = {ha_side_wan_ip}
        rightsubnet = 10.90.91.1
        leftsubnet = 10.90.91.2/30

HA side:

conn con1
        fragmentation = yes
        keyexchange = ikev2
        reauth = yes
        forceencaps = no
        mobike = no

        rekey = yes
        installpolicy = no

        dpdaction = restart
        dpddelay = 10s
        dpdtimeout = 60s
        auto = start
        left = {ha_side_wan_ip}
        right = {non_ha_side_wan_ip}
        leftid = {ha_side_wan_ip}
        ikelifetime = 28800s
        lifetime = 3600s
        ike = aes256-sha1-modp1024!
        esp = aes256gcm128-sha256-modp2048,aes256gcm96-sha256-modp2048,aes256gcm64-sha256-modp2048!
        leftauth = psk
        rightauth = psk
        rightid = {non_ha_side_wan_ip}
        rightsubnet = 10.90.91.2
        leftsubnet = 10.90.91.1/30

[jimp]

Those don't look quite right, there is no reqid in those blocks like there should be. Are the ipsecX interfaces actually present?

Might be due to the tunnel being IKEv2, I think all three of my test systems here have been IKEv1. I'll try to spin up a v2 set.

[obrienmd]

Yup, ipsec1000/2000 (depending on box) ints are there, and show proper /30s.