Hello Matthew,

Thanks for your reply.

Actually what you are explaining here makes a lot of sense, I'll try it and
will let the list know if the issue gets resolved.

Regards

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Matthew Odendaal <[email protected]> wrote:

> It sounds like the sofaware box can't handle the amount of tunnels,
> because the default configuration on VPN communities is to create a pair
> of VPN keys for each subnet. If there are many subnets, that results in
> many keys being created which puts extra load on the Sofaware box.
>
> We previously had similar issues with one of our larger s...@office
> deployments. To overcome this, we changed the VPN Tunnel Sharing options
> under Tunnel Management to use "One VPN Tunnel per Gateway pair".
>
> That should reduce the overhead on the s...@office devices somewhat, as
> it will only use a single pair of keys to communicate with all subnets
> behind the gateway.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sergio
> Alvarez
> Sent: 11 June 2009 05:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FW-1] Unstable VPN traffic
>
> Hello,
>
> I have this very strange issue with a deployment of a VPN-1 (SPLAT R65)
> HA
> cluster on a main site and ADSL s...@office boxes on several remote
> locations, site to site VPNs were configured and the phase 1 negotiation
> goes with no issues, but then something wrong is happening with phase 2.
> On the remote locations there are only flat networks behind each Sofa
> box,
> but behind the HA pair of the main location there are lots of different
> IP
> ranges, which forced the administrator to configure very wide ranges
> when
> creating the VPN on the Sofa GUI (using the "specify configuration"
> option).
> What happens is some of the IP ranges behind the VPN-1 HA pair are
> reachable
> while some are not, you might think it was a config issue or an
> overlapping
> ip range causing trouble, but suddenly the situation changes and
> networks
> that were not reachable become reachable and ones that were working fine
> stop working. In the same way, moving to the other side, main site ip
> ranges
> that were able to get to the networks behind the Sofa boxes are no loger
> able to do so and some that were failing, sudenly are able to get there.
>
> The situation occurs not only for one VPN with a Sofa box, but it has
> occured with every box they have deployed (5 at this point). They
> purchased
> 10 of those boxes but stopped the deployment due to these issues and
> have
> made rollbacks on most of them as the issue makes it almost impossible
> for
> the poeple on the remote offices to work properly.
>
> The Tracker on the main site shows all attempts to reach remote networks
> as
> encrypted (no drops) and on the Sofa logs there are no errors or drops
> either. Captures on both sides where taken while doing tests from a
> remote
> office trying to reach several ip ranges on the main site and apparently
> packets to failing networks reach the Sofa but never make it through the
> tunnel as are not shown on the main site.
>
> Has anybody seen something like this? Any help will be very
> appreaciated.
>
> Regards
>
>
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> Sergio Alvarez
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