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I would like to forward SSH from my cable modem interface to an internal box in a different VRF, but this for some reason is only possible using static IP addresses. The global IP address in the NAT statement must be a static one to be able to also include a VRF reference.

This is what I would like to add:

ip nat source static tcp 10.0.0.11 22 interface Vlan6 22 vrf private extendable

However, neither “vrf” nor “extendable” is allowed after “interface” has been entered.

Yet, if Vlan6 has the IP address 192.0.2.123 from DHCP, I can add the following static NAT entry and it works as one would expect:

ip nat source static tcp 10.0.0.11 22 192.0.2.123 22 vrf private extendable

I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to add the VRF to an entry that uses an interface reference for the global IP address. (more…)

I wanted to use the OS X VPN client to connect to my home network while on the road. I guess using an OS X server would be the easiest way to get a Mac-compatible VPN server up and running. Using a Cisco running IOS required quite a few lines of configuration.

The OS X VPN client provides terrible feedback. It will happily tell you that there was “no response from the VPN server” when in reality the server responds with a rejection of all the ISAKMP or IPsec transforms proposed by the client. Fortunately both the Cisco debugging messages and verbose output from tcpdump were quite helpful.

In about 3 hours I got it all working, including routing with other VRFs and DMVPN sites. (more…)