Okay, I give up, and think I have done my due diligence (I have been engrossed and fascinated spending many more hours than allotted to try and learn some of the finer details). Time for some advice. My usual trade is controls engineering which generally require only basic knowledge of networking principals. However I recently took a job to integrate 100 or so lift stations scattered around a county into a central SCADA system. I decided to use cellular technology to connect these remote sites back to the main SCADA system. Well the infrastructure is now in and it’s time to get these things talking. Basic topology description is as follows: Each remote site has an Airlink LS300 gateway. Attached to the gateway via Ethernet is a system controller that I will be polling via Modbus TCP from the main SCADA system. The Airlinks are provisioned by Verizon utilizing a private network with static IP's. This private networks address is 192.168.1.0/24. Back at the central office the SCADA computer is sitting behind a Cisco 2911. The LAN address of the central office is 192.168.11.0/24. The 2911 is utilizing GRE tunnels that terminate with Verizon. The original turn up was done with another contractor that did a basic config of the router which you will find below. As it stands now I am pretty confident the tunnels are up and working (if I change a local computers subnet to 255.255.0.0 I can surprisingly reach the airlinks in the field), but this is obviously not the right way to solve the problem, not to mention I was unable to successfully poll the end devices on the other side of the Airlinks. I think I understand just about every part of the config below and think it is just missing a few items to be complete. I would greatly appreciate anyone’s help in getting this set up correctly. I also have a few questions about the set up that still don’t make sense to me, you will find them below the config. Thanks in advance.
no aaa new-model
!
ip cef
!
!
ip dhcp excluded-address 10.10.10.1
!
ip dhcp pool ccp-pool
import all
network 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.248
default-router 10.10.10.1
lease 0 2
!
!
ip domain name yourdomain.com
no ipv6 cef
!
multilink bundle-name authenticated
!
username cisco privilege 15 one-time secret
!
redundancy
!
crypto isakmp policy 1
encr 3des
hash md5
authentication pre-share
group 2
crypto isakmp key AbCdEf01294 address 99.101.15.99
crypto isakmp key AbCdEf01294 address 99.100.14.88
!
!
crypto ipsec transform-set VZW_TSET esp-3des esp-md5-hmac
mode transport
!
!
!
crypto map VZW_VPNTUNNEL 1 ipsec-isakmp
description Verizon Wireless Tunnel
set peer 99.101.15.99
set peer 99.100.14.88
set transform-set VZW_TSET
match address VZW_VPN
!
!
!
!
!
interface Tunnel1
description GRE Tunnel to Verizon Wireless
ip address 172.16.200.2 255.255.255.252
tunnel source 22.20.19.18
tunnel destination 99.101.15.99
!
interface Tunnel2
description GRE Tunnel 2 to Verizon Wireless
ip address 172.16.200.6 255.255.255.252
tunnel source 22.20.19.18
tunnel destination 99.100.14.88
!
interface Embedded-Service-Engine0/0
no ip address
shutdown
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
description $ETH-LAN$$ETH-SW-LAUNCH$$INTF-INFO-GE 0/0$
ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.248
shutdown
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
ip address 192.168.11.1 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
ip address 22.20.19.18 255.255.255.0
duplex full
speed 100
crypto map VZW_VPNTUNNEL
!
router bgp 65505
bgp log-neighbor-changes
network 0.0.0.0
network 192.168.11.0
neighbor 172.16.200.1 remote-as 6167
neighbor 172.16.200.5 remote-as 6167
!
ip forward-protocol nd
!
ip http server
ip http access-class 23
ip http authentication local
ip http secure-server
ip http timeout-policy idle 60 life 86400 requests 10000
!
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 22.20.19.19
!
ip access-list extended VZW_VPN
permit gre host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18
permit icmp host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18
permit esp host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18
permit udp host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18 eq isakmp
permit gre host 22.20.19.18 host 99.101.15.99
permit gre host 22.20.19.18 host 99.100.14.88
!
access-list 23 permit 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.7
!
!
!
control-plane
!
end
So after spending countless hours analyzing every portion of this, I think that adding one line to this will get it going (or at least closer).
ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.0.0 22.20.19.19
That should allow my internal LAN to reach the Airlink gateways on the other side of the tunnel (I think)
Now for a couple of questions for those that are still actually hanging around.
#1 what is the purpose of the Ethernet address assigned to each tunnel? I only see them being used in the BGP section where they are receiving routing tables from the Verizon side (is that correct?). Why wouldn't or couldn't you just use the physical Ethernet address interface in its place (in the BGP section)?
#2 is the config above correct in pointing the default route to the physical Ethernet address? Does that force the packets into the tunnel, or shouldn’t you be pointing it towards the tunnel IP's (172.16.200.2)? If the config above is correct then I should not need to add the route I described above as if I ping out to 192.168.1.X that should catch it and force it into the tunnel where Verizon would pick it up and know how to get it to its destination??
#3 Will I need to add another permit to the VZW_VPN for TCP as in the end I need to be able to poll via Modbus which uses port 502 TCP. Or is TCP implicit in some way with the GRE permit?
I actually have alot more questions, but I will keep reading for now.
I really appreciate the time you all took to trudge through this. Also please feel free to point anything else out that I may have missed or that can be improved. Have a great day!
