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Cisco ASA 5505 IPSec tunnel won't establish until remote site attempts to connect

Brent Morris
Beginner
Beginner

I have a site to site IPSec tunnel setup and operational but periodically the remote site goes down, because of a somewhat reliable internet connection. The only way to get the tunnel to re-establish is to go to the remote site and simply issue a ping from a workstation on the remote network. We were having this same issue with a Cisco PIX 506E but decided to upgrade the hardware and see if that resolve the issue. It ran for well over a year and our assumtions was that the issue was resolved. I was looking in the direction of the security-association lifetime but if we power cycle the unit, I would expect that it would kill the SA but even after power cycling, the VPN does not come up automatically.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

ASA Version 8.2(1)

!

hostname KRPS-FW

domain-name lottonline.org

enable password uniQue

passwd uniQue

names

!

interface Vlan1

nameif inside

security-level 100

ip address 10.20.30.1 255.255.255.0

!

interface Vlan2

nameif outside

security-level 0

ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.248

!

interface Ethernet0/0

switchport access vlan 2

!

interface Ethernet0/1

description Inside Network on VLAN1

!            

interface Ethernet0/2

shutdown

!

interface Ethernet0/3

shutdown

!

interface Ethernet0/4

shutdown

!

interface Ethernet0/5

shutdown

!

interface Ethernet0/6

shutdown

!

interface Ethernet0/7

description Inside Network on VLAN1

!

ftp mode passive

dns server-group DefaultDNS

domain-name lottonline.org

access-list NONAT extended permit ip 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.0 10.20.20.0 255.255.255.0

access-list NONAT extended permit ip 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0

access-list NONAT extended permit ip 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.15.0 255.255.255.0

!

access-list KWPS-BITP extended permit ip 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.0 10.20.20.0 255.255.255.0

access-list KWPS-BITP extended permit ip 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0

access-list KWPS-BITP extended permit ip 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.15.0 255.255.255.0

!

icmp unreachable rate-limit 1 burst-size 1

no asdm history enable

arp timeout 14400

global (outside) 1 interface

nat (inside) 0 access-list NONAT

nat (inside) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

access-group OUTSIDE_ACCESS_IN in interface outside

route outside 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1

timeout xlate 3:00:00

timeout conn 1:00:00 half-closed 0:10:00 udp 0:02:00 icmp 0:00:02

timeout sunrpc 0:10:00 h323 0:05:00 h225 1:00:00 mgcp 0:05:00 mgcp-pat 0:05:00

timeout sip 0:30:00 sip_media 0:02:00 sip-invite 0:03:00 sip-disconnect 0:02:00

timeout sip-provisional-media 0:02:00 uauth 0:05:00 absolute

timeout tcp-proxy-reassembly 0:01:00

dynamic-access-policy-record DfltAccessPolicy

http server enable

http 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.0 inside

http 10.20.20.0 255.255.255.0 inside

!

snmp-server enable traps snmp authentication linkup linkdown coldstart

!

crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-256-SHA esp-aes-256 esp-sha-hmac

crypto ipsec security-association lifetime seconds 28800

crypto ipsec security-association lifetime kilobytes 4608000

crypto dynamic-map DYNMAP 65535 set transform-set ESP-AES-256-SHA

crypto map VPNMAP 1 match address KWPS-BITP

crypto map VPNMAP 1 set peer xxx.xxx.xxx.001

crypto map VPNMAP 1 set transform-set ESP-AES-256-SHA

crypto map VPNMAP 65535 ipsec-isakmp dynamic DYNMAP

crypto map VPNMAP interface outside

crypto isakmp enable outside

crypto isakmp policy 5

authentication pre-share

encryption 3des

hash sha

group 2

lifetime 86400

crypto isakmp policy 65535

authentication pre-share

encryption 3des

hash sha

group 2

lifetime 86400

!

ssh timeout 5

console timeout 0

management-access inside

!

tunnel-group xxx.xxx.xxx.001 type ipsec-l2l

tunnel-group xxx.xxx.xxx.001 ipsec-attributes

pre-shared-key somekey

!

1 Reply 1

rizwanr74
Rising star
Rising star

Hi there,

I had same issue with PIX 506E and it was not even a circuit issue and I got ride of it and problem got fixed with PIX515E

I don't know, the device is too old to stay alive.

thanks

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