Selective SNAT in VPN

Question

I have a fully working VPN (Network Access) on BIGIP; very easy to set tup.

I have an RFC1918 IP pool 10.10.1.1-10.10.1.254 allocated for the VPN clients, and my BIGIP has a couple of network interfaces. If I enable AutoMap, everything works nicely.

Question: is it possible to do a selective SNAT based on where the client wants to go? If yes, how?

I'm trying to keep the RFC1918 IPs when clients talk to internal resources in our network, but I would like to SNAT only the traffic going to the Internet (it leaves through a specific interface that has it's own self-ip).

shaun_simmons · Answer

Take a look at this link, which I believe should suffice your request:&nbsp;https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/selective-snat

juraj · Answer

Thanks for your response Shaun. I started with that article first, before posting my question here. Unfortunately, that doesn't provide a desired solution.

CLIENT_ACCEPTED gets triggered only when the VPN client is connecting to VPN VS, but not after the VPN client is already connected and has the VPN IP assigned from the pool.

LB_SELECTED doesn't get triggered at all, since there's no back-end server assigned to a VPN VS.

So, unless I'm doing something wrong, the above link doesn't provide the expected result.

shaun_simmons · Answer

You could simplify the configuration and not use a lease pool. Have all client connect to one SNAT IP via a SNAT pool, applied to the VIP, instead of "AutoMap". --Local -> Address Translation --> SNAT Pool. That way you take out a layer of "complexity" knowing it is not a DHCP lease issue.

Network Configuration

--If you have a SELF IP for every Subnet needed for all of your applications/VIPs, then the clients will be able to route to where they need, as long as they have an IP that is one of the Self IP subnets you have configured. The F5 is a Layer 2("switch"), if it does not own the .1, where the routing will traverse the respective Self IP, versus the Default Route, if an IP is not matched.

iRule idea --

Try "when HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE" versus "when CLIENT_ACCEPTED"

juraj · Answer

I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused now. I'm configuring Network Access VPN for EDGE client. HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE doesn't get triggered either by the VPN client.

To be honest, I do not follow what you're trying to say.

This is my situation:

I have Network Access VPN for Edge clients
I do not have problems with DHCP, the clients get their IPs assigned properly once they connect to VPN; the IP is from 10.10.1.1-10.10.1.254, routable in our network, but not routable in the Internet
everything works without any problems, if I apply AutoMap or SNAT-pool to the Network Resource.

My problem is that I want to SNAT only when they go to the Internet, i.e. their traffic leaves via a specific BIGIP interface

shaun_simmons · Answer

I'll have to ask my colleagues for additional thoughts.

-My thoughts are the inbound and outbound is routed specifically to the SNAT. Knowing if traffic is routed to the internet is not in the same "stream", to know where to route. I'd think the user would have to use the BIGIP as a proxy to the Internet, since the gateway to the Internet is based on their local DHCP derived gateway and DNS. The Edge client creates a HTTPS tunnel to specific apps / links configured via APM.

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