Hello Peter,
I think you should describe beter the topology, IP addresses, routers
and another layer 3 devices between Provider-1 and NG firewalls,
and also describe better what exact changes were done.
Alexey

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Peter Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
> forgot to mention, these firewalls are currently being managed by a Provider-1
> NGX
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Peter Addy <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sat, 18 June, 2011 21:31:51
> Subject: [FW-1] Please help!!!    " Reason: Smart Center Server aborted
> connection with peer, due to timeout = 300000( mili-sec )( port = 18191 )
>
> guys
>
> Anyone seen this message before!
>
> Reason: Smart Center Server aborted connection with peer, due to timeout =
> 300000( mili-sec )( port = 18191 )
>
> Basically trying to install a policy on a pair of NG AI R55 firewall from a 
> NGX
> R65 manager, the policy times out with the above message.
>
> Strange issue, if I then fwunloadlocal on the firewalls and re-establish SIC,
> trust can be established, but when I push the policy the message appears 
> again.
> however I then I log onto the firewalls and do a fw stat, I can see the policy
> installed, but I cannot access the firewalls via ssh ,https, and trust 
> complains
>
> about communicating, the policy on the firewalls should allow me to do this, 
> my
> policy seems fine, but the message is somewhat baffling and I don’t really 
> knows
>
> what this is, i fwunloadlocal the policy and trust is ok ????
>
> Our management server is communicating to firewalls which are on NAT IP's, 
> which
>
> are then' NAT''d once leaving the firewalls and presented as the real IP's, 
> only
>
> the management IPs of the firewalls are changed on the cluster object, which 
> get
>
> translated to the real IP's, no NAT rules are in place and I don’t think they 
> ar
>
> needed as NAT is in place on the return path,  correct me if I am wrongthat a
> NAT rule has to bed in place ? and anti spoofing is all off and set to 
> internal,
>
>
>
> but then why does comms work from the manager to the firewalls when I
> fwunloadlocal, then stop when I install a policy??
>
> Please help as this is really annoying and rather urgent and I get this fixed,
> so appreciate the help,thanks
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Peter Addy <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, 2 June, 2011 7:57:27
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] vpn and manager
>
> Hey,
>
> Well resetting sic as this will be managed from a new firewall manager, and to
> complicate things all interfaces configured are on a 10.x along wit the 
> cluster
> ip. So to manage this from our network we have to change the management
> interfaces to our address on the firewall policy object, the other side of the
> vpn sees and communicates site to site to this cluster ip 10.x, my thinking is
> change the modules and cluster ip to our address just on the policy firewall
> object not hardware, and leave the rest,this is because when we communicate to
> the ips of the modules they get natd to the 10.x however the other vpn sees it
> as a 10.x so when we do sic and push a new policy my guess this will conflict,
> or the fact our ips say are 28.x but are then seen coming across as 10.x, or
> does the firewall object have to match exactly what the interface are on the
> physical boxes, as you can gather a bit of a nightmare, hope this makes sense
> and yup could do with some
> practical advice on how best to achieve this with the same vpn set up but a
> different management set up
>
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:15 BST Independent IT Consultant wrote:
>
>>If doing an upgrade_export / upgrade_import, it won't be an issue.  If a sic
>>reset or new ICA is involved, then yes, you cannot.
>>
>>Why are you resetting SIC?
>>
>>On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Peter Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, would I be correct in saying that you cannot use the same vpn
>>> certificate for the same vpn, where only the manager smart centre is
>>> changing?
>>>
>>> On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:28 BST David DeSimone wrote:
>>>
>>> >Gary Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> VPN's would break right away, as soon as you reset SIC the initial
>>> policy is
>>> >> loaded
>>> >
>>> >One presumes that you would not reset SIC until you are just about to
>>> >install the new policy.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> ________________________________
>>> >> From: David DeSimone <[email protected]>
>>> >> To: [email protected]
>>> >> Sent: Tue, May 24, 2011 8:55:28 AM
>>> >> Subject: Re: [FW-1] vpn and manager
>>> >>
>>> >> VPN's would not break right away.  The gateways are in the habit of
>>> >> pre-loading the CRL every 2 hours, so they should have a recent copy of
>>> >> it whenever they need it; the problem is that the expiry lifetime of the
>>> >> CRL is 24 hours at best, which is why that is the maximum time you have
>>> >> to establish new SIC and install a new policy.
>>> >>
>>> >> There is no way to avoid using certificated-based authentication for
>>> >> internally-managed gateways, I believe.  It is not an available option
>>> >> to use pre-shared secrets, except with externally-managed peers.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Peter Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks, now to add a further spin! What if the manager changed and sic
>>> >> > was established with another manager, would the vpns break instantly
>>> >> > or not until a new policy was pushed from the new manager? Basically I
>>> >> > assume there is no real way to keep a vpn intact and hardly any down
>>> >> > time if a ne manager was deployed changing the vpn from cert to pre
>>> >> > shared key, cheers
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Tue, 24 May 2011 01:34 BST David DeSimone wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > >Since we just recently had this happen to us on our network, I can
>>> >> > >confirm that this is exactly what happens.
>>> >> > >
>>> >> > >Certificate-based VPN's will fail within 24 hours due to the
>>> gateways'
>>> >> > >inability to load the CRL.
>>> >> > >
>>> >> > >Pre-shared secret VPN's will continue to operate, presumably
>>> >> > >indefinitely.
>>> >> > >
>>> >> > >
>>> >> > >Independent IT Consultant <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> > >>
>>> >> > >> It greatly depends on the *type* of VPN.  If using certificates
>>> (such
>>> >> > >> as with Edges or other gateways that are centrally managed), then
>>> >> > >> the limiting factor is the CRL expiration on the ICA, which is, by
>>> >> > >> default, 24 hours.  In this case, tunnels that can't validate their
>>> >> > >> certificates will fail after that CRL timeout period.  Remember,
>>> >> > >> it's 24 hours after the last CRL refresh, not necessarily 24 hours
>>> >> > >> after the SMC went down.  With VPNs to external gateways using
>>> shared
>>> >> > >> secret, they may work indefinitely, but I wouldn't guarantee it.
>>> >> > >>
>>> >> > >>
>>> >> > >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Peter Addy <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> > >>
>>> >> > >> > Curious, Does anyone know how long would vpn's continue to work
>>> if a
>>> >> > >> > smartcenter was down and not available for ? And if they do stop
>>> why
>>> >> > >> > is this so, or do they simply continue to run but changes not can
>>> be
>>> >> > >> > made until the manager was restored? Thanks
>>> >
>>> >--
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