Re: PIX in multiple IPsec roles

Craig Van Tassle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:52:53 -0400
Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Is there a plausible way to convince a PIX to pass through an
> IPsec tunnel to another device while simultaneously being an
> endpoint for a different tunnel?
> 
> I have sites A, B, and C. Each has a PIX515E with tunnels to the
> other two sites.
> 
> Now a vendor wants to establish a tunnel to a device inside
> PIX A. I seem to be lacking the right keywords to search for
> this.
> 
> -dsr-
> 
> 

It sounds like your vendor wants a static nat to the their device on
the inside. Can you be a bit more verbose about the network setup. The
PIX should see this traffic as normal traffic. I usually use a unique
public IP for the NAT. 

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