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    Routed IPsec using if_ipsec VTI interfaces

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

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        I did see one problem come up that I just pushed a fix for, but I didn't see that specific error you had unless I had an IKEv1/IKEv2 mismatch between the peers.

        The fix I made only touches two lines, you can easily apply it manually to test: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/d4b43c48ed1636d3fcd6e47d73ba721bd63d883a

        With that I just switched both sides from IKEv1 to IKEv2 and it came right back up.

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          obrienmd
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          Yep, nailed it. Looking good with that change.

          Because of your warning on frr, I'm testing with static routing right now. After everything was fixed and I disabled / re-enabled the interfaces to get traffic flowing, static routes were showing in the route table but set to hn1 rather than the ipsec interface. Editing and re-saving the static route resolved the issue.

          With dynamic routing I bet I won't see that in the future, but if there's some resiliency code somewhere to reset interfaces on static routes when gateways disappear/appear, go up/down, go pending, etc... Perhaps something needs to get tweaked there.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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            I need to work a bit on static routes yet. I had it solved and working on reboot but somewhere in my changes this week that appears to have broken again as I am not seeing my routes in the table after it boots up. I need to investigate more and open another issue up for that.

            FRR should be better next week, see my updates on https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8449#note-2

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              obrienmd
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              Great, thanks Jim.

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                obrienmd
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                Is there a simple way to map a devel release, e.g. 2.4.4.a.20180608.1025 for Factory or 2.4.4.a.20180608.0718 for CE, against a git commit? I don't want to assume it will be build using all commits immediately prior to that (and I don't know which time zones these are based on).

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                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @obrienmd
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                  @obrienmd said in Routed IPsec using if_ipsec VTI interfaces:

                  Is there a simple way to map a devel release, e.g. 2.4.4.a.20180608.1025 for Factory or 2.4.4.a.20180608.0718 for CE, against a git commit? I don't want to assume it will be build using all commits immediately prior to that (and I don't know which time zones these are based on).

                  Not without loading it up and seeing what's in /etc/version.lastcommit. Servers are using CDT.

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                    Static routes should be OK now. I'm not quite sure how it worked before, given the changes I had to make, but it's working now.

                    https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/0aa52fb21a21f58035f2e2fe3b9328a9c175ffb5

                    I think that might be most if not all of the functional issues. There are still some anti-foot-shooting measures I need to take like preventing removing an IPsec tunnel or P2 used as a VTI interface.

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                      obrienmd
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                      On latest devel for factory and CE, everything functionally is looking great. Had to restart *pinger (I forget which one is used these days) for gateways to get out of pending after initial interface bring-up, but packets are all flowing, no weird state issues, very solid :)

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @obrienmd
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                        @obrienmd said in Routed IPsec using if_ipsec VTI interfaces:

                        On latest devel for factory and CE, everything functionally is looking great. Had to restart *pinger (I forget which one is used these days) for gateways to get out of pending after initial interface bring-up, but packets are all flowing, no weird state issues, very solid :)

                        Great! I'll have to check back on the gateways, one of mine is OK and it comes right up, I had disabled gateway monitoring on the other pair because it was interfering with the packet captures I was taking when diagnosing some of the other traffic issues above.

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