NAT Help

[Mike Hogenauer]

Hi –

I just wanted to verify my config and make sure I’m doing this correctly.

I’m setting up a new ASA VPN firewall for all our vendor site-to-site connections. I don’t want to expose my inside subnets to the vendors so I was going to carve out subnets from a 10.3.0.0/16 space to NAT the traffic.

Example:

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Vendor X subnet

Object network VEND_X_VPN

192.168.1.0 /24

My Internal subnet for vendor X to connect to”

Object network MY_VPN

10.1.60.0/24

Object network VEND_NAT

network 10.3.1.0 255.255.255.0

NAT Statement – this would be applied on my firewall so I’m assuming the Vendor will put the NAT’d address (10.3.1.0/24)in his crypto map to connect to.

nat (inside,outside) source dynamic object-group MY_VPN obj-VEND_NAT destination static VEND_X_VPN VEND_X_VPN

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Does this look right?

Thanks

Mike

[jumora]

Just change it to source static:

nat (inside,outside) source static object-group MY_VPN obj-VEND_NAT destination static VEND_X_VPN VEND_X_VPN

The VPN portion is correct.

[jumora · Accepted solution]

On your local VPN math address ACL you need to put the 10.3.1.0/24

[jumora]

If you have any doubts please let me know.

Please mark as answered and rate the assistance.

[Mike Hogenauer]

Thanks Jumora!

So basically my crypto map ACL will look like:

ACL crypto 1 permit my_vpn vend_nat

So I dint need to reference the vendors 192 subnet because the inside interface is doing the NATing correct?

Regards,

Mike

[jumora]

Ok wait, from what I understood what you were doing was NATTING your local network so that the remote VPN network would not know of your real network 10.1.60.0/24 so you were going to translate it to 10.3.1.0/24 when going to

192.168.1.0 /24. If this was the case the NAT rule that I going to place under this conversation is correct:

nat (inside,outside) source static object-group MY_VPN obj-VEND_NAT destination static VEND_X_VPN VEND_X_VPN

Then what you need to add on the match address ACL would be somehting like this:

access-list VPN permit ip 10.3.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.0  255.255.255.0

That is what I was saying.