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NAT public IP to two private IP as failover

L2 Linker

Is there a way in Palo alto firewall to do that? is some one already using it?

 

 

Example

 

x.x.x.x (public) ------ Palo Alto (NAT) ----------------172.16.5.5 (primary)

                                                                                  |

                                                                                     172.16.5.6 (backup)

 

 

Mike. 

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Cyber Elite

Hello,

Should like a load balancer would work better. But thinking about it, I wonder if Policy Based Forwarding with a Monitor would work. While I have not tried it in this fashion, I have used it for a multiple ISP failover scenario.

 

Perhaps someone else has tried it?

 

Regards,

I was thinking about PBF option as well but as you stated it is actually for vice versa option as you can only specify one  default gateway for the client in the "trust" zone. Just thinking how the client is going to change a DG if one link is failing. No VRRP option available or possible here 🙂 One device so not much what we can do. Thinking about this:

 

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Configuration-Articles/How-to-Configure-LACP/ta-p/65837

 

But l am not very familiar with this protocol and if it works in Layer 3 with one IP, so cannot comment much

Hi all,

 

Depend what you are looking for:

   - Use Policy Based Routing: Activ/Passiv or Activ/Activ - and you choose which traffic on which link

        https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/70/pan-os/pan-os/policy/create-a-policy-based-forward...

   - Use Link Layer Distribution Protocol  - act like load balancing by defining two route with same weight

        https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/70/pan-os/newfeaturesguide/networking-features/lldp

 

Hope hep

 

V.

 

you don't need to set a default gateway for the internal subnets, a simple subnet route will suffice: Policy Based Forwarding bypasses route lookups when it is active for a session

 

from the perspective of the pbf configuration the public side can be treated as the local network and the 2 routes as the dual-isp

-set a pbf with monitor pointed at the primary link

-set a normal route to the secondary link

Tom Piens
PANgurus - Strata specialist; config reviews, policy optimization

L2 Linker

just confused, do I create two NAT rules from trust to untrust as bidirectional and then apply pbf for a connected subnet?

 

I'm using lvl3 interfaces 

since NAT rules are zone based, you can et the external zone to zone1 and the 2 internal interfaces to zone2, that way your NAT rule will always apply, regardless of the internal interface in use

then have pbf route traffic to the primary link if the monitor is up, and a static route be backup for the secondary link if the pbf monitor fails

 

- During the failover from the primary interface to the backup, existing sessions will fail out due to them being bound to the interfaces, but the new sessions will simply pick up as expected, using the same NAT rule

Tom Piens
PANgurus - Strata specialist; config reviews, policy optimization
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