Define routing policies for an IPSec VPN
FortiWAN’s intelligent routing function (Auto Routing and Tunnel Routing) transferred all packets, including packets of IPSec, outward over multiple WAN links. Although an IPSec configuration specifies the IP addresses of the WAN ports (Phase 1: Local IP and Remote IP) used to establish the IPSec VPN and the IP addresses that Quick Mode selectors evaluate for, it does not imply the correspondent routing for the IPSec packets. You are required to have extra rules of Auto Routing or Tunnel Routing setting manually to fixedly route the IPSec packets to correct WAN port.
The IPSec packets we are talking about consist of the packets of 2 phases IKE negotiations (called “IKE packets” here) and the packets of IPSec VPN communications (called “ESP packets” here). An IKE packet comes from the local FortiWAN unit and its source IP address is just the configured Local IP (a WAN port); an ESP packet comes from a private network behind the local FortiWAN and its source IP address is a private IP address. The followings describe the procedures defining related policies for “IPSec Tunnel mode” and “Tunnel Routing over IPSec Transport mode”.
Define Auto Routing and NAT policies for an IPSec Tunnel-mode VPN
For IPSec Tunnel Mode, you need to make sure connections of both IKE and ESP packets are fixedly routed by Auto Routing to the WAN port that is configured as the Local IP of the IPSec VPN tunnel.
Example topology for the following policies
For this example topology, we need to have configurations of Network Setting, Auto Routing, NAT and IPSec as follows:
Network Setting
Network Settings on the both sides:
WAN settings Go to System > Network Setting > WAN Setting
| WAN Setting | Local endpoint (Site A) | Remote endpoint (Site B) |
| WAN Link | 1 | 1 |
| WAN Type | Routing Mode | Routing Mode |
| WAN Port | Port1 | Port1 |
| IPv4 Localhost IP | 10.10.10.10 | 20.20.20.20 |
| IPv4 Netmask | 255.255.255.0 | 255.255.255.0 |
| IPv4 Default Gateway | 10.10.10.254 | 20.20.20.254 |
For the details of WAN link setting, see “Configurations for a WAN link in Routing Mode”, “Configurations for a WAN link in Bridge Mode: One Static IP” and “Configurations for a WAN link in Bridge Mode: Multiple Static IP”.
LAN private subnets Go to System > Network Setting > LAN Private Subnet
| LAN Private Subnet | Local endpoint (Site A) | Remote endpoint (Site B) |
| IP(s) on Localhost | 192.168.10.254 | 192.168.100.254 |
| Netmask | 255.255.255.0 | 255.255.255.0 |
| LAN Port | Port3 | Port3 |
For the details of LAN private subnet setting, see “LAN Private Subnet”.
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