dual internet links NATing with PBR and IP SLA

[Marwan ALshawi]

Introduction

Network Address Translation is a very common feature used to address some issues and also to meet some networks' requirements such as, overlapped networks and Internet links.

In this small document we will discuss a business requirement example, and the main idea behind this example is to demonstrate how to implement and configure NATign with dual homed Internet edge Router  in conjunction with other Cisco IOS advanced features (Policy Based routing PBR and IPSLA ).

Also we will see how all of the above mentioned features work together and how IP SLA will work like a gear to this implementation in term of controlling the exit path of the traffic by controlling the default route in the routing table and PBR decision.

Requirements:

Company XYZ.com has bought a second Internet connection with 1 Mbps in addition to the existing one with 512 Kbps.

the requirement is to load share the traffic over those two links

web traffic and telnet traffic must use the the new ISP link ISP2  and all other traffic must go thorough the old ISP link ISP1

in the case of any of the above links gose down all the traffic should use the remaining link

Note:

this example has been configured in a lab environment and al the private ip addresses used in this document just for the purpose of this example

Proposed solution:

According to the above requirements we will use Policy Based routing feature to control LAN traffic going to the Internet and which path to use.

all traffic from the LAN subnet 10.1.1.0/24 destined to tcp 23, 80 and 443 must be routed to ISP 2  link with next hop 172.16.1.2

all other traffic will go though ISP 2 with next hop of 192.168.1.2

as we do not have any subnet or ip ranges to use it over the Internet we have to use NATing with overload option to use the Internet interface IP address

of each ISP link

for example traffic going through ISP 1 will be seen by ISP one and the Internet as it is from 192.168.1.1

if it is through ISP 2 will be seen as it is from 172.16.1.1

In the case of one of the links go down we need all the traffic to use the other remaining link

this will be archived here by using IP SLA with ICMP echo that will be sent to each of the ISP next hop IP addresses in our example 192.168.1.2 and 172.16.1.2

the ICMP echo will be sent every 1 second with time out of 500 msec

if the icmp reply not heard from any of those next hops within 1 second that link will be considered down and the default route in the Internet router pointing to that hop will be withdrawn from the routing table

and the PBR descion will be changed based on that as well

Configurations:

interface FastEthernet1/0

description LAN interface
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
ip policy route-map PBR    ---- this is for policy based routing

interface FastEthernet1/1

description To ISP 1
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip nat outside
!
interface FastEthernet2/0

description To ISP 2
ip address 172.16.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip nat outside

as we can see above the inside interface was configured as inside NAT interface also a policy based routing with a name of PBR applied to that interface, the configurations of this PBR will be described later

both of the Internet ISP links configured as outside NAT interfaces

IP SLA configurations:

ip sla 1
icmp-echo 192.168.1.2
timeout 500
frequency 1
ip sla schedule 1 life forever start-time now

ip sla 2
icmp-echo 172.16.1.2
timeout 500
frequency 1
ip sla schedule 2 life forever start-time now

as we can IP sla 1 will sends icp echo to ISP 1 ip address every 1 second and IP sla 2 will send it to ISP 2

track 10 rtr 1 reachability
delay down 1 up 1
!
track 20 rtr 2 reachability
delay down 1 up 1
!

if ip sla 1 did not get icmp replay within 1 second track 10 will be considered as down ( from ISP 1)

track 20 same for ISP 2

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 track 10
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.2 track 20

we have two default routes each one point to one of the ISP's IP address, also each static default route is associated with the corresponding IP SLA track created above

in this case if ISP 1 link is down the first default route will disappear from  the routing table ( we will see this through some verifications command later in his document).

access-list 10 permit 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.255
access-list 100 permit tcp 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq telnet
access-list 100 permit tcp 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq www
access-list 100 permit tcp 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq 443
access-list 101 permit ip any any

these ACLs will be used with PBR and NATing

route-map PBR permit 10
match ip address 100
set ip next-hop verify-availability 172.16.1.2 1 track 20
!
route-map PBR permit 30
match ip address 101
set ip next-hop verify-availability 192.168.1.2 2 track 10
!

we can see from the above route-map called PBR that we have several checks to our traffic coming from the LAN interface towards the Internet

first check is the ACL level

if the traffic soured from our LAN subnet 10.1.1.0/24 and going to any destination using tcp 23, 80 or 443 then this traffic will be match with ACL 100

if any thing else then will be match with ACL 101

In case of telnet traffic tcp 23, this will be match by ACL 100 and route-map sequence 10

but in this sequence we have another check before we send the traffic to the next hope 172.16.1.2, we need to make sure this next hope is up and reachable this is done by the IP SLA /track 20 created above if this track is up then the traffic will be route thorough ISP2 with a next hop 172.16.1.2

if this track 20 is down then the default static route entry points to ISP2 will be withdrawn from the routing table and traffic matched by ACL 100 under the sequence number of 10 of the route-map will be routed according to the normal routing table which is through ISP1 ( because at this stage we have only one default static route left  points to ISP1).  Any other traffic has not matched by ACL 100 will use the route map sequence 30 with the same concept described above

Now we can see how IP SLA controlling the routing table and the  PBR choice !!!

route-map ISP2 permit 10
match ip address 10
match interface FastEthernet2/0
!
route-map ISP1 permit 10
match ip address 10
match interface FastEthernet1/1

those two Route maps will be used by the NAT command

Please note that we have in each of the route-maps match interface this interface representing the exit interface of that nat

this command is important if we do not use it the router always will use the first nating statement and all our traffic will be sourced in our example from 192.168.1.1 !!

we will see that later in this document the effect of removing the match interface from the route-map

ip nat inside source route-map ISP1 interface FastEthernet1/1 overload
ip nat inside source route-map ISP2 interface FastEthernet2/0 overload

this is simply our nating commands each with is corresponding interface and route-map

verifications:

for the verifications purposes we will use a loopback interface created on both ISP routers in our example to represent an destination in the Internet

which is 100100.100.100/32

show ip route 0.0.0.0
Routing entry for 0.0.0.0/0, supernet
  Known via "static", distance 1, metric 0, candidate default path
  Routing Descriptor Blocks:
    192.168.1.2
      Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
  * 172.16.1.2
      Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1

we have two default route in our routing table which means both ISP routers IP addresses are reachable by SLA icmp echo

show route-map PBR
route-map PBR, permit, sequence 10
  Match clauses:
    ip address (access-lists): 100
  Set clauses:
    ip next-hop verify-availability 172.16.1.2 1 track 20 [up]
  Policy routing matches: 24 packets, 1446 bytes
  route-map PBR, permit, sequence 30
  Match clauses:
    ip address (access-lists): 101
  Set clauses:
    ip next-hop verify-availability 192.168.1.2 2 track 10  [up]
  Policy routing matches: 60 packets, 6840 bytes

both SLA traks 10 and 20 in UP state shown in the route maps show command

now lets ping 100.100.100.100 from the an internal host in subnet 10.1.1.0/24 and we enable debug of NATing on the Internet edge router to see the translated traffic

ping 100.100.100.100

*Dec 19 20:24:44.103: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->192.168.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [80]
*Dec 19 20:24:44.371: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=192.168.1.1->10.1.1.10 [80]

this is showing us that icmp traffic translated to ->192.168.1.1,

this means that icmp traffic has been match with ACL 101 and because track 10 is up traffic sent to 192.168.1.1 then translated using NAT

this is the PBR debug result for the above ping

*Dec 19 20:25:12.247: IP: s=10.1.1.10 (FastEthernet1/0), d=100.100.100.100, len
100, FIB policy match
*Dec 19 20:25:12.251: IP: s=10.1.1.10 (FastEthernet1/0), d=100.100.100.100, g=19
2.168.1.2, len 100, FIB policy routed
*Dec 19 20:25:12.259: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->192.168.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [81]
*Dec 19 20:25:12.623: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=192.168.1.1->10.1.1.10 [81]

Now lets see the result when we do a telnet session from the internal network:

telnet 100.100.100.100

*Dec 19 20:26:00.375: IP: s=10.1.1.10 (FastEthernet1/0), d=100.100.100.100, len
44, FIB policy match
*Dec 19 20:26:00.375: IP: s=10.1.1.10 (FastEthernet1/0), d=100.100.100.100, g=17
2.16.1.2, len 44, FIB policy routed
*Dec 19 20:26:00.383: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->172.16.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [57504]    --- the traffic used 172.16.1.1 link -----
*Dec 19 20:26:01.159: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=172.16.1.1->10.1.1.10 [25782]

lets shut down ISP1 link to simulated a link down and see how IP SLA will work in this situation:

ping 100.100.100.100

*Dec 19 20:27:54.139: %TRACKING-5-STATE: 10 rtr 1 reachability Up->Down
*Dec 19 20:27:57.895: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->172.16.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [82]
*Dec 19 20:27:58.099: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=172.16.1.1->10.1.1.10 [82]

now our ICMP traffic match by ACL 101 is using the link of ISP2 with 172.16.1.1 as the source IP.

we can see bellow that interface connected to ISP 1 is still up, but because the next hop not reachable via ICMP,  IP SLA removed the default route that uses ISP1 next hop from the routing table

interfaces up/up but default route to ISP1 disappeared because of SAL track 10

FastEthernet1/0            10.1.1.1        YES NVRAM  up                    up

FastEthernet1/1            192.168.1.1     YES NVRAM  up                    up

FastEthernet2/0            172.16.1.1      YES manual up                    up

show ip route 0.0.0.0
Routing entry for 0.0.0.0/0, supernet
  Known via "static", distance 1, metric 0, candidate default path
  Routing Descriptor Blocks:
  * 172.16.1.2
      Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1

lets bring it back to up now

*Dec 19 20:31:29.143: %TRACKING-5-STATE: 10 rtr 1 reachability Down->Up

Routing entry for 0.0.0.0/0, supernet
  Known via "static", distance 1, metric 0, candidate default path
  Routing Descriptor Blocks:
  * 192.168.1.2
      Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
    172.16.1.2
      Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1

ping 100.100.100.100

*Dec 19 20:32:15.559: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->192.168.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [183]
*Dec 19 20:32:16.071: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=192.168.1.1->10.1.1.10 [183]

Now lets remove the match interface command from each of the NAT route-maps and see the result

(config)#route-map ISP1
(config-route-map)#no ma
(config-route-map)#no match in
(config-route-map)#no match interface fa1/1
(config-route-map)#route-map ISP2
(config-route-map)#no ma
(config-route-map)#no match int fa2/0
(config-route-map)#

#clear ip nat translation *

then we do ping and telnet we will see al the traffic will be translated to 192.168.1.1 regardless which exit the traffic is using !!!

ping 100.100.100.100

*Dec 19 20:33:47.615: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->192.168.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [184]
*Dec 19 20:33:48.067: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=192.168.1.1->10.1.1.10 [184]

*Dec 19 20:34:51.675: NAT*: i: tcp (10.1.1.10, 21603) -> (100.100.100.100, 23) [
64704]
*Dec 19 20:34:51.679: NAT*: i: tcp (10.1.1.10, 21603) -> (100.100.100.100, 23) [
64704]
*Dec 19 20:34:51.683: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->192.168.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [64704]
*Dec 19 20:34:51.847: NAT*: o: tcp (100.100.100.100, 23) -> (192.168.1.1, 21603)
[52374]
*Dec 19 20:34:51.847: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=192.168.1.1->10.1.1.10 [52374]
*Dec 19 20:34:52.123: NAT*: i: tcp (10.1.1.10, 21603) -> (100.100.100.100, 23) [
64705]

lets put match interface back  to the nat route-maps

*Dec 19 20:36:23.379: NAT*: i: icmp (10.1.1.10, 16) -> (100.100.100.100, 16) [18
5]
*Dec 19 20:36:23.383: NAT*: i: icmp (10.1.1.10, 16) -> (100.100.100.100, 16) [18
5]
*Dec 19 20:36:23.387: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->192.168.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [185]
*Dec 19 20:36:23.827: NAT*: o: icmp (100.100.100.100, 16) -> (192.168.1.1, 16) [
185]
*Dec 19 20:36:23.827: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=192.168.1.1->10.1.1.10 [185]

telnet 100.100.100.100

*Dec 19 20:36:52.099: NAT*: i: tcp (10.1.1.10, 16305) -> (100.100.100.100, 23) [
46655]
*Dec 19 20:36:52.099: NAT*: i: tcp (10.1.1.10, 16305) -> (100.100.100.100, 23) [
46655]
*Dec 19 20:36:52.103: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->172.16.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [46655]
*Dec 19 20:36:52.259: NAT*: o: tcp (100.100.100.100, 23) -> (172.16.1.1, 16305)
[41145]
*Dec 19 20:36:52.259: NAT*: s=100.100.100.100, d=172.16.1.1->10.1.1.10 [41145]
*Dec 19 20:36:52.355: NAT*: i: tcp (10.1.1.10, 16305) -> (100.100.100.100, 23) [
46656]
*Dec 19 20:36:52.359: NAT*: s=10.1.1.10->172.16.1.1, d=100.100.100.100 [46656]
*Dec 19 20:36:52.375: NAT*: i: tcp (10.1.1.10, 16305) -> (100.100.100.100, 23) [
46657]

Conclusion:

to conclude the above configuration example, by using NAT with other Cisco IOS features in particular IP SLA the network will be more automated and reliable, we can track the next hop reachability and we may use other advanced features of IP sla such as link jitter, in the case that we have VOIP traffic. Also by using PBR functionalities we were able to classify our traffic and send it based on the requirements over the two links to avoid congesting one link and leave the other link as passive/back up only.

Thank you

Marwan Alshawi

[Michael Antonakis]

Hello there

My thanks too for the great article. I have a similar setup with a c876. One problem though is that both of my aDSL lines connect to the same ISP, who gives me the same next-hop ip address for both connections, and whenever I test what's the IP address the Internet sees me coming from, I always see dialer's 0 ip address, although I should see dialer's 1 ip address. Another problem is that all the incoming connections from the Internet are blocked and I really need the Internet to be able to contact my email server. Port forwarding, as Edmand hon writes on the previous post, doesn't work. Is there any solutions to my problems?

Thx in advance,

Michael

[Nicolas_G]

Hi,

I'm facing a problem with one of my ISP's. The first ones seems to have the next hop ip address stable all the time but the second ISP next hop ip address is different after some time or when resycnhronizing the connection/ reloading the router.

I have contacted the ISP and they said this is how it works and cannot be changed. Does anyone know any workaround in to solve this issue ?

Regards,

Nicolas.

[will.schroeder]

This is a fantastic post and very informative. It helped me a great deal but the situation I was dealing with also required an IPSec RA VPN and a content filter (content filter didn't present a challenge but the VPN most certainly did).

The way the PBR was routing traffic was based on IP address (not ports) and the customer wanted both T1s to work for the VPN. I took out the configuration I did and am going to post it here in hopes someone else will benefit from it. If I accidentally didn't pull a portion out or made any incorrect adjustments before posting, sorry:

Note: Don't forget your no NAT and to allow UDP 500, 4500 and ESP back to your outside interfaces. Unfortunately, the reverse-route capabilities using virtual-templates won't work in this situation (at least I couldn't make it work), so I opted for this method. I didn't comment things that were straight forward for a VPN and be sure to replace any of my <> substitutions with what matches your stuff.

aaa authentication login aaa-ra_vpn local

aaa authorization network aaa-ra_vpn local

crypto isakmp policy 10

encr aes

authentication pre-share

group 2

ip local pool pool-ra_vpn <start IP> <end IP>

crypto isakmp client configuration group grp-ra_vpn

key <key>

dns <dns servers>

domain <domain suffix>

pool pool-ra_vpn

acl acl-ravpn_split

netmask <network mask>

crypto ipsec transform-set ts-strong esp-aes 256 esp-sha-hmac 

*** Since we have to define which connection to use for the traffic we have to have two separate maps to make sure both will work ****

crypto dynamic-map cmap-dynamic 10

set transform-set ts-strong

reverse-route remote-peer <ISP 1 gateway> gateway

crypto dynamic-map cmap-dynamic_backup 10

set transform-set ts-strong

reverse-route remote-peer <ISP 2 gateway> gateway

crypto map cmap-ravpn_primary client authentication list aaa-ra_vpn

crypto map cmap-ravpn_primary isakmp authorization list aaa-ra_vpn

crypto map cmap-ravpn_primary client configuration address respond

crypto map cmap-ravpn_primary 10 ipsec-isakmp dynamic cmap-dynamic

crypto map cmap-ravpn_secondary client authentication list aaa-ra_vpn

crypto map cmap-ravpn_secondary isakmp authorization list aaa-ra_vpn

crypto map cmap-ravpn_secondary client configuration address respond

crypto map cmap-ravpn_secondary 10 ipsec-isakmp dynamic cmap-dynamic_backup 

interface Serial0/0/0

desc ** Primary T1 **

crypto map cmap-ravpn_primary

!

interface Serial0/1/0

desc ** Secondary T1 **

crypto map cmap-ravpn_secondary

*** This matches traffic being used to authenticate the remote VPN user and sets it to the appropriate gateway to prevent asymmentric routing (without it successfully being able to authenticate is sporadic). The ACLs match the appropriate traffic, the route-map entries dictate which gateway to use, and the ip local policy activates it. ****

ip access-list extended acl-ipsec_ravpn

permit udp host <Interface IP for ISP 1> eq isakmp any

permit udp host <Interface IP for ISP 1> eq non500-isakmp any

ip access-list extended acl-ipsec_ravpn_secondary

permit udp host <Interface IP for ISP 2> eq isakmp any

permit udp host <Interface IP for ISP 1> eq non500-isakmp any

route-map rm-ravpn permit 40

match ip address acl-ipsec_ravpn

set ip next-hop <ISP 1 gateway>

route-map rm-ravpn permit 50

match ip address acl-ipsec_ravpn_secondary

set ip next-hop <ISP 2 gateway>

ip local policy route-map rm-ravpn

*** Loopback interface to handle properly routing the VPN traffic through the tunnel ***

interface Loopback10

ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.252

*** This is the same route-map from the post here, permit 5 will allow it to match here first so it routes the VPN traffic properly. Without this you won't encapsulate any packets outbound as it will skip the tunnel. ***

route-map PBR permit 5

match ip address acl-ravpn_split

set ip next-hop 1.1.1.2

[Gerardo Marciales]

Hello, thanks marwanshawi, finally my setup work fine reading your post an adapting to my behavior, in my case I have two ISP using DHCP, one ADSL, other TV Modem.
I put the result in my show ip route
S*   0.0.0.0/0    [254/0] via 200.90.64.1
                          [254/0] via 186.14.96.1

In SLA and route-map PBR, immediately run, thanks for your help

[Vinayaka Raman]

Hi

We have an MPLS (primary) and DSL (secondary) in our remote sites..both links are in the same router for very few sites and rest have individual routers

Few remote sites are in router on stick model..so there is a HSRP running between all the VLANs and MPLS is actively forwarding the traffic when both the links are up..

and rest sites have multi-layer swiches wherein we have a default route pointing to HSRP active IP..In this case where can we apply the Policy routing..on the vlan interface ?

we wanted to allow the least significant traffic such as internet via DSL and fallback to MPLS upon DSL failure..

How can we achieve this..

HSRP load balancing will divert all the traffic but we want only specific traffic to route via dsl..

[Gerardo Marciales]

Greetings, your environment is much more complex than mine.

I mean, I have two ISP, ADSL (DHCP), Cable Modem (DHCP), in my case, I do not see as primary - secondary, both must work according to the criteria you want and in turn fail over.

From inside to outside, is working perfect, even I have the problem only from outside to inside, finally understand that it is by IP + CEF administrative distances, for the moment I have the administrative distances from outside to inside setting only fail over, but the idea is to have both active, as I was with another team before this, if you can help me with this please.

Let's do something, I will post my settings giving some relevant details of it and are very attentive to clarify the doubts.

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   host 172.16.1.5 255.255.255.192

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   client-name proxy

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   host 172.16.1.6 255.255.255.192

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   host 172.16.1.7 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0100.216a.890a.2e

   client-name t500

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ip dhcp pool Realtek

   host 172.16.1.8 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0100.1060.5b9c.ad

   lease 0 0 5

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   host 172.16.1.9 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0190.e6ba.43d9.6a

   client-name sl500

   lease 0 0 5

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   host 172.16.1.10 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0100.26c6.7666.2c

   client-name sl500

   lease 0 0 5

!

ip dhcp pool SPA942

   host 172.16.1.55 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0100.0e08.d337.b7

   client-name 101

   lease 0 0 5

!

ip dhcp pool ATA

   host 172.16.1.56 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0100.0b82.04b3.8a

   client-name ata

   lease 0 0 5

!

ip dhcp pool spa3102

   host 172.16.1.57 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0100.0e08.c146.f4

   client-name spa3102

   lease 0 0 5

!

ip dhcp pool x3200

   host 172.16.1.58 255.255.255.192

   client-identifier 0100.1a64.ec6d.28

   client-name x3200

   lease 0 0 5

!

!

ip domain name domainname.ext

ip name-server 8.8.8.8

ip name-server 8.8.4.4

ip name-server 208.67.222.222

ip name-server 208.67.220.220

ip name-server 198.153.192.40

ip name-server 198.153.194.40

!Send this command Copy TFTP Running --> ?

ip ddns update method DynDNS01

HTTP

  add http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@<s>/nic/update?system=dyndns&hostname=wan01.domainname.ext&myip=<a>

interval maximum 0 0 10 0

interval minimum 0 0 5 0

!

ip ddns update method DynDNS02

HTTP

  add http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@<s>/nic/update?system=dyndns&hostname=wan02.domainname.exte&myip=<a>

interval maximum 0 0 10 0

interval minimum 0 0 5 0

!

!

multilink bundle-name authenticated

vpdn enable

!

vpdn-group LAN

! Default PPTP VPDN group

accept-dialin

  protocol pptp

  virtual-template 1

l2tp tunnel receive-window 256

!

!

!

username ADMINISTRATOR privilege 15 secret 5 $1$7MAJ$FEZMqoaLMh6DDcoXgIs1L0

! this user to VPN PPTP low privilege

username USERNAME privilege 0 secret 5 $1$T/8T$tdklcAdLYaqbMDDhH4git0

!

!

crypto isakmp policy 1

encr aes 192

authentication pre-share

group 2

lifetime 28800

crypto isakmp key 6 zbf8VnsVN2NOXY4BQn1fq69YiOLIma hostname REMOTESITE01.domainname.ext

crypto isakmp key 6 y010BeAb3pvg4Jk2HO89DEeu9plI7y hostname REMOTESITE02.domainname.ext

crypto isakmp key 6 laolsadpsadoiqsaer+sreppewr5 hostname REMOTESITE03.domainname.ext

crypto isakmp key 6 ebnx9NEhgYlbdERJMQA0jDWnJjWMw7 hostname REMOTESITE04.domainname.ext

!

!

crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-SHA esp-aes 192 esp-sha-hmac

!

crypto map CMAP_Site_to_Site 1 ipsec-isakmp

set peer REMOTESITE.domainname.ext dynamic

set peer REMOTESITE02.domainname.ext dynamic

set peer REMOTESITE03.domainname.ext dynamic

set peer REMOTESITE04.domainname.ext dynamic

set transform-set ESP-AES-SHA

set pfs group2

match address Site_to_Site

!

archive

log config

  hidekeys

!

!

ip ssh version 2

track timer interface 5

!

track 111 rtr 1 reachability

delay down 15 up 10

!

track 222 rtr 2 reachability

delay down 15 up 10

bridge irb

!

!

!

interface Dot11Radio0

no ip address

!

ssid SSID NAME

!

mbssid

speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 6.0 9.0 basic-11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0

station-role root

!

interface Dot11Radio0.1

encapsulation dot1Q 1 native

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source

no bridge-group 1 source-learning

no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding

!

interface Dot11Radio1

no ip address

!

ssid SSID NAME

!

mbssid

speed basic-6.0 9.0 basic-12.0 18.0 basic-24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0

station-role root

!

interface Dot11Radio1.1

encapsulation dot1Q 1 native

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source

no bridge-group 1 source-learning

no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding

!

interface FastEthernet0

description WAN01

ip dhcp client default-router distance 10

ip dhcp client route track 111

ip ddns update hostname wan01.domainname.ext

ip ddns update DynDNS01 host members.dyndns.org

ip address dhcp

ip nat outside

ip virtual-reassembly

duplex auto

speed auto

no cdp enable

crypto map CMAP_Site_to_Site

!

interface FastEthernet1

description WAN02

ip dhcp client default-router distance 20

ip dhcp client route track 222

ip ddns update hostname wan02.domainname.ext

ip ddns update DynDNS02 host members.dyndns.org

ip address dhcp

ip nat outside

ip virtual-reassembly

duplex auto

speed auto

no cdp enable

!

interface FastEthernet2

description Microsoft Hyper-V

switchport mode trunk

!

interface FastEthernet3

description IBM X3200

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface FastEthernet4

description FXO

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface FastEthernet5

description ATA

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface FastEthernet6

description SPA942

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface FastEthernet7

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface FastEthernet8

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface FastEthernet9

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface Virtual-Template1

ip unnumbered BVI1

peer default ip address pool Pool-VPN

no keepalive

ppp encrypt mppe auto

ppp authentication pap chap ms-chap ms-chap-v2

!

interface Vlan1

no ip address

bridge-group 1

!

interface Async1

no ip address

encapsulation slip

!

interface BVI1

description LAN

ip address 172.16.1.1 255.255.255.192

ip nat inside

ip virtual-reassembly

ip policy route-map PBR

!

ip local pool Pool-VPN 172.16.1.59 172.16.1.62

ip forward-protocol nd

!

!

no ip http server

no ip http secure-server

ip dns server

ip nat pool SIP 172.16.1.2 172.16.1.2 prefix-length 26 type rotary

ip nat pool Web 172.16.1.4 172.16.1.4 prefix-length 26 type rotary

ip nat inside source route-map WAN01 interface FastEthernet0 overload

ip nat inside source route-map WAN02 interface FastEthernet1 overload

ip nat inside destination list SIP_Static_PAT_ACL pool SIP

ip nat inside destination list Web_Static_PAT_ACL pool Web

!

ip access-list extended PAT

deny   ip 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 172.16.0.0 0.0.255.255

permit udp host 172.16.1.58 host 8.8.4.4 eq domain

permit udp host 172.16.1.58 host 8.8.8.8 eq domain

permit udp host 172.16.1.58 host 208.67.222.222 eq domain

permit udp host 172.16.1.58 host 208.67.220.220 eq domain

permit udp host 172.16.1.58 host 198.153.192.40 eq domain

permit udp host 172.16.1.58 host 198.153.194.40 eq domain

permit ip 172.16.1.2 0.0.0.1 any

permit tcp host 172.16.1.4 204.13.248.0 0.0.0.255 eq 2525

permit tcp host 172.16.1.5 any eq www

permit tcp host 172.16.1.5 any eq 443

permit tcp host 172.16.1.5 any eq 8080

permit tcp host 172.16.1.5 any eq 8443

permit tcp host 172.16.1.5 any eq 4040

permit tcp host 172.16.1.5 any eq ftp

permit tcp 172.16.1.6 0.0.0.1 any eq 1723

permit tcp 172.16.1.8 0.0.0.2 any eq 1723

permit gre 172.16.1.6 0.0.0.1 any

permit gre 172.16.1.8 0.0.0.2 any

permit tcp 172.16.1.6 0.0.0.1 any eq 3389

permit tcp 172.16.1.8 0.0.0.2 any eq 3389

permit tcp 172.16.1.6 0.0.0.1 any eq 3390

permit tcp 172.16.1.8 0.0.0.2 any eq 3390

permit tcp 172.16.1.6 0.0.0.1 any eq 22

permit tcp 172.16.1.8 0.0.0.2 any eq 22

permit udp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq ntp

permit icmp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any echo

ip access-list extended SIP_Static_PAT_ACL

permit tcp any any eq 5060

permit udp any any eq 5060

permit tcp any any range 9000 9049

permit udp any any range 9000 9049

permit tcp any any eq 5090

permit udp any any eq 5090

ip access-list extended Site_to_Site

permit ip 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 172.16.1.64 0.0.0.63

permit ip 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 172.16.1.128 0.0.0.127

permit ip 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 172.16.2.0 0.0.0.31

permit ip 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 172.16.2.32 0.0.0.31

ip access-list extended WAN01

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq www

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 1723

permit gre 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 3389

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 3390

ip access-list extended WAN02

permit ip host 172.16.1.2 any

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 443

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 8080

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 8443

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 4040

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq ftp

permit tcp 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 22

ip access-list extended Web_Static_PAT_ACL

permit tcp any any eq www

permit tcp any any eq 443

permit tcp any any eq 993

permit tcp any any eq 465

permit tcp any any eq 2525

!

ip sla 1

icmp-echo 190.198.224.1 source-interface FastEthernet0

timeout 2000

threshold 40

frequency 3

ip sla schedule 1 life forever start-time now

ip sla 2

icmp-echo 186.14.96.1 source-interface FastEthernet1

timeout 2000

threshold 40

frequency 3

ip sla schedule 2 life forever start-time now

logging trap debugging

logging 172.16.1.58

access-list 700 permit 0021.6a89.0a2e   0000.0000.0000

access-list 700 permit 0026.c676.662c   0000.0000.0000

access-list 700 permit 0026.ff4c.798e   0000.0000.0000

!

!

!

route-map PBR permit 10

match ip address WAN01

set ip next-hop verify-availability NEXT_HOP 1 track 111

!

route-map PBR permit 20

match ip address WAN02

set ip next-hop verify-availability NETX_HOP 2 track 222

!

route-map WAN01 permit 30

match ip address PAT

match interface FastEthernet0

!

route-map WAN02 permit 30

match ip address PAT

match interface FastEthernet1

!

!

!

!

control-plane

!

bridge 1 protocol ieee

bridge 1 route ip

!

line con 0

login local

line 1

modem InOut

stopbits 1

speed 115200

flowcontrol hardware

line aux 0

line vty 0 4

login local

transport input ssh

line vty 5 15

login local

transport input ssh

!

ntp logging

ntp clock-period 17179972

ntp update-calendar

ntp server 129.6.15.29 source FastEthernet1 prefer

ntp server 129.6.15.28 source FastEthernet0 prefer

end

[MainstreamIT]

I'm a total noob to Cisco routers.

I may be in the wrong section.  I'm trying to setup a Cisco 881 SEC K9 with DUAL WAN with FAILOVER and basic QoS support for VoIP phones.

• IOS Version 15.0(1)M4
• When I select Create Connection it asks me to enable AAA and then the only option is to convert a LAN interface to a trunk instead of Switch port.

1st Problem: I can't figure out how to enable/add a second WAN interface using the CCP

2nd Problem: I don't have the Performance Routing feature available.  I was trying to follow this video: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_configuration_professional/scrcst/PfR/CCPPFR.swf  But I don't have the "Performance Routing" feature available

3rd Problem: I don't see any QoS features, also in the discovery details it says "Unable to detect CME version" voice features will not be available.

[Gerardo Marciales]

Hello Chistopher, I think are you in a good place to share information and experience with everyone.

You can use my previous post like a base to start your configuration.

Vinayaka Raman, made a big contribution to find a result.

In my previous post have all information to make:

Load Balance/FailOver from Inside --> Outside, VPN IPSec Site to Site, VPN PPTP and more.

My recommendation, if you want use Cisco IOS, tries to work without CCP, analyze my configuration and ask.

Please, try to explain your environment.

[MainstreamIT]

Thank you Gerardo

I need to start with the basics:

1. I have two ISP's, #1 Cable, #2 Wireless.  The Cisco 881 only has one FE WAN port(FastEthernet4).  I followed instructions that I found in another example to create a vlan loopback.  QUESTION: How can I enable one of the ports on the FE LAN switch to be an Outside WAN interface

Cisco881 Configuration:

interface FastEthernet3

description $ES_WAN$$FW_OUTSIDE$

switchport mode access

switchport access Vlan2

interface FastEthernet4

description $ES_WAN$$FW_OUTSIDE$
ip address dhcp client-id FastEthernet4

ip nat outside

interface Vlan1

description $ETH-SW-LAUNCH$$INTF-INFO-HWIC 4ESW$$ES_LAN$$FW_INSIDE$

ip address 192.168.16.1 255.255.255.0

ip nat inside

interface Vlan2

description $ES-WAN$$FW_OUTSIDE$

ip address 24.207.X.X 255.255.255.0

ip nat inside

[Gerardo Marciales]

OK, I understand better.

Please, let me help you on weekend, making a laboratory like your enviroment, I have another Router (Cisco 871), since a few days ago I had the idea to try to make NAT/PAT like your idea, I think is possible.

[rock981119]

Hi Marwanshawi,

  Nice Doc.

  I have question about dual internet link.

  If traffic from internet to router interface link1 IP,  Router possible using link2 IP to reply.

  I have implement a router dual wan link to internet, link 1 is fix IP, link 2 is dynamic IP, and have worry IP to reply.

  Any idea?

  Thx.

[Marwan ALshawi]

Hi Zhi

since each ISP uses its own IP ( public IP or any IP allocated to your end ) and with nating this IP will be presented to the rest of the world over the Internet and because this IP belong to lets say ISP link1 it then it won't get routed over ISP2 link2

this is possible to happen only if you are mutlihoming to multiple ISPs and advertising your public range over both of them

but in the above case NATing being used to use each IPS IP or IP range

hope this help

[Gerardo Marciales]

Hello for everyone.

Talking again about our need/experience, I can should say to me is very important this document.

I show my configuration before, in my case my Router 1811W is working OK, only have a dude, how can controller CEF/Load Balance from Outside to Inside to can receive query for both ISP, before I have this Router I had a Linksys RV082, with my older Router I could receive information from Outside to Inside at the same moment.

I try for example disabling CEF, but receive 01 packet and lost 01 packet, I need both ISP maintain listening in both direction Inside < - - >Outside

Please, what I should to do?

[vishal.rane]

Hi Marwanshawi,

Its a great post.  I need your help how to tweak the configuration your posted with my requirement

I have Two DSL terminated on the Router and I need to use One DSL Link for Internet Browsing (traffic inside to outside) and use another DSL link for Site to Site VPN with our Corporate International Office.

Condition#1  :   Inf DSL 1 is down then all browsing traffic should be shifted to DSL 2 line ( browsing traffic should not exceed 50% of the total 4MB )

Condition #2 : If DSL 2 is down then all IPSEC VPN traffic should be shifted to DSL 1 line ( browsing traffic should not exceed 50% of the total 4MB )

Once either of the DSL link is up then the initial criteria should be met.

DSL 1 & DSL 2 -------Internet-Router-------------ASA5520---------------Switches

DSL1 connects to router port1

DSL 2 connects to router port2

Thanks in advance

Vishal

[ciscobigcat]

Hi Marwanshawi,

Your solution looks good but I will have to still disagree with it a little bit because in some scenarios, the requirements could get more demanding. For example, throw in the picture one-to-one NAT translations. With this configured, your solution more than likely will not provide a "smooth" failover and failback.

But again I am not totally against it because what you have presented here is indeed a lot better than anything cisco or any other sites present. It really talks about what could very well be anyone's real network. The books, the cisco articles, etc. do not get as close to it and I have read a lot... there is lots of theory, but your solution has lots of practice.

I've seen few environments where customer wanted exactly this, single router and 2 ISPs and wanted smooth failover.... Your solution will perhaps provide only 70% of that. Another flaw besides the one I mentioned above is flapping. What are you doing to prevent flapping? this is another problem that can mess up the presented solution. It will simply make it not acceptable by many business owners.