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Re: which firewall product?


From: Jason Pack <jpack () sevone com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 08:48:34 -0400

I'm pretty sure you can do this with any modern firewall... An ASA5505 is
always a good bet.

You'd just have to route the IPIP packets to a hairpin interface on the
firewall, then create a policy that handles packets coming inbound from the
hairpin.  Policies for handling traffic with that as the source interface
would be able to filter based on layer-3 info as normal.


The trick is, as mentioned, to route the de-encapsulated traffic back into
the firewall.  A quick googling shows a related example of this for the ASA
here: http://nat0.net/cisco-asa-hairpinning/

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On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Kenny Kant <akennykant () gmail com> wrote:

If the tunnel is to be terminated on this firewall device I would say look
into a Mikrotik box.  Alternatively you could make Cisco's IOS firewall /
zone based firewall do this.  So look into an ISR?


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On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:00 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

Hi folks,

I'm trying to identify a firewall appliance for one of my customers.
The wrinkle is: it has to be able to inspect packets inside an IPIP
tunnel and accept/reject based on IP address, TCP port number and
standard things like that. On the packet carried *inside* the IPIP
tunnel packet.


From what I can tell, the Cisco ASA can't do this.

Linux iptables can (with the u32 match module) but the customer wants
an appliance, not a server.

What appliances do you know of that can do this? Is there a different
Cisco box? A Juniper firewall? Anything else?

Thanks in advance,
Bill Herrin


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