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Re: [FW-1] Help with VPN between fw-1 4.0 and Netscreen-100



First thing:  Change your setup to use main mode instead of aggressive mode.
It's more secure, and while aggressive isn't causing your problem, it's
intended for situations where one of the endpoints' IP address is not known.
Both of yours are known.  So why play it fast and loose? :)

Second, the big issue between CP 4.0 and the Netscreen is that CP 4.0 isn't
capable of doing Phase 2 negotiation for subnet ranges.  All tunnels are
host-to-host.  At the same time, the NS negotiates for subnet ranges by
default and so far as I know, there's no way to turn this off (unlike FW-1
4.1 and NG, where you can give it IP ranges but tell it to negotiate
host-to-host for any communications within thos ranges).

To work around this, on the NS end, you have to define a policy (or set of
policies, if the VPN is bidirectional) for each pair of devices that you
want to talk to each other.  Yeah, I know, ouch.  Trust me, I didn't like it
either.

It sounds to me like you've got a 3.x flavor of the NS ScreenOS firmware,
and with that said I should point out that my experience came under 2.6.x.
NS may have added some new trick to the CLI to turn on a host-to-host
switch, but I haven't heard of one yet.

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lonny Schwartz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [FW-1] Help with VPN between fw-1 4.0 and Netscreen-100


Wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks to getting a VPN up between fw-1
4.0 and a Netscreen. From the Netscreen logs I can see that it's completing
Phase 1 but not getting past Phase 2 I've setup a similar configuration on
my test network except I'm using a fw-1 4.1 and everything works OK. My
environment is connecting from my DMZ (public IP) to another sites DMZ
(public IPs), so that rules out a NAT issue.

Here's my Netscreen log if thats any help:

00536 IKE <Checkpoint IP> Phase 2: Initiated negotiations.(initiator) 00536
Phase 1 (Checkpoint IP) complete, AGGR mode, 28800sec. 00536 IKE <Checkpoint
IP> Phase 1: Initiated negotiations in aggressive mode.

I'm stuck on why it just hangs, I've had problems with other CP4.1 VPN's but
usually it'll give me some clue with an error on a policy/network issue.

Thanks!

Lonny


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Lonny Schwartz
Micromuse Inc.
[email protected]

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