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Load-balancing nat-t connections to VPN concentrators

gmiiller
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I'm currently using a CSS to provide redundancy across some nat-t VPN RAS sessions to some VPN concentrators (in different geographical areas) This works fine, but because I have to create content rules for both UDP 500 and UDP 4500 traffic, I'm concenred that if I move to a genuine load-balanced arrangement instead of merely redundancy, the CSS units might decide to direct UDP500 traffic from a remote user to one concentrator, and the subsequent UDP4500 traffic to another. I tried port ranges and a single content rule - no success. Does anyone know how to associate 2 udp content rules to enforce traffic symmetry, or will a default srcip balancing rule see the concentrator balance traffic based on srcip globally across all content rules?

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Gilles Dufour
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

if you do balance srcip, the CSS will use a hash and this hash function should be the same for all the content rules, so giving you the same results.

A single layer3 content rule with advanced-balance sitcky-srcip should work as well.

Regards,

Gilles.

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