HotBrick LoadBalancer LB-2 manual

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    Firewall HotBrick LB-2 How T o LB-2 IPSec Tunnel Setup Guide[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 2 LB-2 IPSec Tunnel Setup Guide The HotBrick LB-2 is a VPN capa ble Dual WAN Ga teway with industry standard IPsec encryption. It provides extremely secure LAN-to-LAN connectivit y over the Internet. The LB-2 suppo rts VPN by encryption, encapsulation, and authenticati[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 3 Figure 2 - Global Setting for Site A 5. Under the Global Setting, make sure you enable the WAN interface that you want the VPN IPSec tunnel to establish through. 6. Both WAN1 and WAN2 can initiate and establish VPN Tunnel s 7. Figure 2 shows the Global Parameters for[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 4 Figure 3 - IPSec Traffic Binding for Site A Figure 4 - IPSec Traffic Binding for Site B[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 5 15. Under Traffic Selector , for Service – Protocol T ype select AN Y. 16. Under Local Security Net work , for Local Type select Subnet . 17. The IP address must reflect the entire subnet. Please see b elow: a. In Figure 3, Site A IP address is 192.168.2.0 and Mask[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 6 Figure 6 - Policy Setup for Site B 25. Under Key Management there are two types: Autokey (IKE) o r Manual Key. 26. If AutoKey (IKE) is selected, your Phase 1 Negotiation can be Main Mode o r Aggressive Mode. In our example we used Main Mode. 27. For Perfect Forward S[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 7 32. The Inbound and Outbound Stateful Packet In spe ction must also be set. 33. Once all these values all entered you click on Add. 34. Now under Action , sel ect Set Options . This brings you to the IPSec Policy Options page. We recommend that you use this section t[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 8 Figure 9 – IPSec Policy Option for Site B Figures 10 and 11 show the tunnel esta blish ed under Policy Setup. Figures 11 and 12 show the log with all the phases of the IPSec tunnel established.[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 9 Figure 10 - Site A tunnel established Figure 11 - Site B tunnel established[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 10 Figure 12 - Logs with tunnel established in Site A Figure 13 - Logs with tunnel established in Site B[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 11 VPN Policy References IPSec Global Setting Enable Enabling WAN 1, WAN 2 or Both will start global setting. ISAkmp Port Designed to negotiate, establish, modify and delete se curity asso ciations and their attributes which was assigned by IANA UDP port 500. Phase 1 D[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 12 PPPoE Session Some ISP’s offer multiple sessions when us ing PPPoE to make VPN connections. These PPPoE sessions can be sel ected to construct VPN tunnels. Traffic Selector Service Protocol Type: Choices are TCP/UDP/ICMP/GRE as your connection protocol. By default[...]

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    How To establish an IPSec VPN tunnel with LB-2 VPN Property of HotBrick — 2005 13 AutoKey (IKE) There are 2 types of operation mode s can be u sed: Main Mode accomplishes a phase 1 IKE exchang e b y establishing a secure channel. Aggressive Mode is another way of accompli shing a phase 1 exchange. It is faster and simpler than main mode, but does[...]