Hi All,

We have an x750 at the center of our network and assorted little firewalls at our branch offices, all had been working well until this week when we got issues reported with one site, they have a zywall 35 down the end of an ADSL line.

We have doen some testing and...

From our lan to the external IP of the site - no packet loss
From External Site to External IP of our site - no packet loss
from our site to internal ip of their firewall approx 25% loss
from their site to internal ip of our firewall approx 25% loss

All these tests have been done with just the ping utility.  Path ping on the internal IP's shows the same amount of loss at the final hop each way only.

So far we have tried rebooting the firewalls at both ends, and have removed and re-created the VPN tunnel at both ends.  we have also tried using different proposals for phases 1 and 2 of the VPN.  there has been no difference.

Any further advice that can be given would be most helpful

Thanks In advance

SkreeM

Hello SkreeM,

In your BoVPN tunnel gateways you will need to use the primary IP's of both sites. So, when you have 2 or more routable public addresses on both your Watchguard and your Zywall. You will still need to tunnel between their respective primairy addresses.

If you are already tunneling through their respective public IP's, I suggest you trace the connection with a ICMP policy set to log traffic even on succesful pings.

If you want me to assist. Just reply.

Regards,
Tommie

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It works! But how?
VoiceByte System Engineer

Hi Tommie,

Each of our tunnels is set to use the primary IP on each end.  How would i go about setting up the trace with the icmp logging?

What i really don't get is why it has suddenly stopped working, it's been fine for at least a year, and suddenly this.  no changes were made to firewall policy this week, but it stopped working at lunchtime on wednesday.

Skr

Hey SkreeM,

You can set the policy for ICMP (usually exists in standard config) to log successful packets. Through it's second tab in WSM.

I've had similar problems and issues with BoVPN tunnels to a Fortigate. What does your IKED logging say? Are all hops in tact? You can trace the route with MTR (unix) or tracert (windows) to see what hops are at work... Though this will not work in a tunnel, so trace from pub ip to pub ip.

Regards,
Tommie

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It works! But how?
VoiceByte System Engineer