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Locking down Ports over site to site VPN

jwashburn
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We are going to be setting up a VPN with a business partner. Through this VPN we only want to allow FTP and HTTP traffic. Is this possible?

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Jon Marshall
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Hi

Yes it is possible. It depends on what device you are using. If a pix you can do a number of things

1) You can use sysopt connection permit ipsec command and then in your crypto map access-list you can specifu tcp rather than the more general ip ie.

access-list vpaccess permit tcp host x.x.x.x host x.x.x.x eq http

etc....

Cisco warn that using ports in your crypto map access-list can have performance implications.

2) You don't use the sysopt connection permit ipsec command. Instead you add your access-list lines to the access-list on the outside interface ie.

your crypto map access-list now says

access-list permit ip host x.x.x.x x.x.x.x

on your outside interface access-list you add

access-list outside_in permit tcp host x.x.x.x host x.x.x.x eq tcp.

This line would not allow clear text http traffic through your pix because due to the crpyto map access-list the pix realises it has to be encrypted.

HTH

Collin Clark
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

We restrict by using a second firewall. That's seems the easiest way, but it's probably the most expensive.