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Policy-Based IPsec VPN Failover

L2 Linker

Hello everyone,

I have a case, where we have configured two site-to-site VPN connections to our partner's primary and backup datacenters. Both tunnels are policy-based IPsec VPNs with Proxy-IDs configured and both use the same local/remote inner IP addresses. This is a single ISP/single virtual router environment.

 

For example this is a sample config of two Proxy-IDs in one tunnel:

  • 172.16.2.2 (real private IP) NATed to 172.29.2.2 used as local and 200.0.0.2 remote.
  • 172.16.2.3 (real private IP) NATed to 172.29.2.3 used as local and 200.0.0.3 remote.

Now exact same proxy ID configuration is present in second tunnel as well. My question is, how do we make tunnel1 preferred egress point for outgoing packet flow and how do we implement failover to tunnel2, in case tunnel1:proxyid sub-tunnels go down?

I can't use any routing solutions or tunnel monitor as it's a policy-based VPN. There are no routes regarding those remote networks and also tunnels have no IP addresses configured for themselves.


ADD: Maybe there is a mechanism in PAN-OS similar to reverse-route in IOS, that can inject routes based on proxy IDs? That could solve the problem with variable AD or metric per route injection.

Pushing zeros and ones.
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L4 Transporter

I use path monitoring on our ISP connectivity but for the record I do NOT have path monitoring for our IPSEC tunnel connections just the tunnel monitors. In testing, it fails over w/o any trouble.

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