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Proxy id between Palo Alto firewall and Cisco ASA

ghostrider — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:17:34 GMT

Hello Experts

PA side there are two subnets: 10.0.1.0/24, 10.0.2.0/24 and Cisco side there are also three subnets 172.16.1.0/24 , 172.16.2.0/24.

On PA firewall, I defined the proxy-id as below:

proxy-id1: local: 10.0.1.0/24 remote: 172.16.1.0/24

proxy-id2: local: 10.0.1.0/24 remote: 172.16.2.0/24

proxy-id3: local: 10.0.1.0/24 remote: 172.16.1.0/24

proxy-id4: local: 10.0.1.0/24 remote: 172.16.2.0/24

My questions are:

1- On Cisco side, how I will define the ACL. I mean I will define the four ACL or only one ACL with two source and two destination?

2- Everytime, if new subnet is added to pass through tunnel. I need to create proxy-id. There is any scalable method for this?

Regards,

Re: Proxy id between Palo Alto firewall and Cisco ASA

Raido_Rattameister — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 03:32:19 GMT

Palo does not care about Proxy ID because it uses routing table to decide where to send traffic (route based vpn).

But as to negotiate IPSec configuration needs to match at both sides so Proxy ID in Palo is just to make Cisco happy.

Cisco on the other hand uses policy based vpn and encryption domains there are used to decide if traffic should be routed into tunnel or not.

So yes you have to have all subnets added to Proxy ID to have traffic flowing.

5 subnets at both sides for example means 25 Proxy ID's -> 5x5.

Re: Proxy id between Palo Alto firewall and Cisco ASA

ghostrider — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 15:18:34 GMT

Hi Raido

Thanks for your valueable feedback. I heard in IKEV2, there is some concept of superset like on PA if I define 10/8 and remote as 172.16/16. Can we do something like that? or it is something else

Re: Proxy id between Palo Alto firewall and Cisco ASA

Raido_Rattameister — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:53:48 GMT

I have not used IKEV2 so maybe someone who has can help here.

Re: Proxy id between Palo Alto firewall and Cisco ASA

ghostrider — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:06:49 GMT

Any one here for IKEV2 explaination?