NAT Traversal (NAT-T) » History » Version 3
Andreas Steffen, 23.07.2009 07:51
Added IKEv1 NAT traversal configuration
| 1 | 2 | Martin Willi | h1. NAT Traversal |
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| 5 | 2 | Martin Willi | h2. IKEv1 |
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| 7 | 3 | Andreas Steffen | NAT discovery and traversal must be enabled by setting *nat_traversal=yes* in the *config setup* section of *ipsec.conf*. Otherwise strongSwan's IKEv1 pluto daemon will not accept incoming IKE packets with a UDP source port different from 500. |
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| 9 | 2 | Martin Willi | h2. IKEv2 |
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| 11 | 2 | Martin Willi | The IKEv2 protocol includes NAT traversal in the core standard, but it's optional to implement. strongSwan implements it, and there is no configuration involved. The NAT_DETECTION_SOURCE/DESTINATION_IP notifications included in IKE_SA_INIT indicates the peers NATT capability and if a NAT situation is detected, UDP encapsulation is activated for IPsec. |
| 12 | 3 | Andreas Steffen | |
| 13 | 3 | Andreas Steffen | strongSwan starts sending keep-alive packets if it is behind a NAT router to keep the mappings on the NAT device intact. |