Example: ES PIC IKE Dynamic SA Configuration
Figure 1: ES PIC IKE Dynamic SA Topology Diagram

Figure 1 shows the same IPSec topology as seen in the ES PIC manual SA example. However, this time the configuration requires Routers 2 and 3 to establish an IPSec tunnel using an IKE dynamic SA, enhanced authentication, and stronger encryption. Routers 1 and 4 continue to provide basic connectivity and are used to verify that the IPSec tunnel is operational.
On Router 1, provide basic OSPF connectivity to Router 2.
Router 1
On Router 2, enable OSPF as the underlying routing protocol to connect to Routers 1 and 3. Configure a bidirectional IKE dynamic SA called sa-dynamic at the [edit security ipsec security-association] hierarchy level. For your IKE policy and proposal, use preshared keys for the authentication method, SHA-1 for the authentication algorithm, 3DES-CBC for encryption, group 2 for the Diffie-Hellman group, main mode, 3600 seconds for the lifetime, and a preshared key of juniper for the initial IKE negotiation. For your IPSec policy and proposal, use ESP for the protocol, HMAC-SHA1-96 for authentication, 3DES-CBC for encryption, 28800 seconds for the lifetime, and group 2 for the PFS group.
To direct traffic into the ES PIC and the IPSec tunnel, create two firewall filters. The es-traffic filter matches inbound traffic from Router 1 destined for Router 4, whereas the es-return filter matches the return path from Router 4 to Router 1. Apply the es-traffic filter to the so-0/0/0 interface, and then apply both the es-return filter and the sa-dynamic SA to the es-0/3/0 interface.
Router 2
On Router 3, enable OSPF as the underlying routing protocol to connect to Routers 2 and 4. Configure a bidirectional IKE dynamic SA called sa-dynamic at the [edit security ipsec security-association] hierarchy level. Use the same policies and proposals that you used on Router 2.
For your IKE policy and proposal, use preshared keys for the authentication method, SHA-1 for the authentication algorithm, 3DES-CBC for encryption, group 2 for the Diffie-Hellman group, main mode, 3600 seconds for the lifetime, and a preshared key of juniper for the initial IKE negotiation. For your IPSec policy and proposal, use ESP for the protocol, HMAC-SHA1-96 for authentication, 3DES-CBC for encryption, 28800 seconds for the lifetime, and group 2 for the PFS group.
To direct traffic into the ES PIC and the IPSec tunnel, create two firewall filters. The es-traffic filter matches inbound traffic from Router 4 destined for Router 1, whereas the es-return filter matches the return path from Router 1 to Router 4. Apply the es-traffic filter to the so-0/0/0 interface; then apply both the es-return filter and the sa-dynamic SA to the es-0/3/0 interface.
Router 3
On Router 4, provide basic OSPF connectivity to Router 3.
Router 4
Verifying Your Work
To verify proper operation of an IKE-based dynamic SA on the ES PIC, use the following commands:
- ping
- show ike security-associations (detail)
- show ipsec security-associations (detail)
- traceroute
The following sections show the output of these commands used with the configuration example:
Router 1
On Router 1, issue a ping command to the so-0/0/0 interface of Router 4 to send traffic across the IPSec tunnel.
user@R1> ping 10.1.56.2
PING 10.1.56.2 (10.1.56.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.1.56.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=0.917 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.56.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=0.881 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.56.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=0.897 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.56.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=253 time=0.871 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.56.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=253 time=0.890 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.56.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=253 time=0.858 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.56.2: icmp_seq=6 ttl=253 time=0.904 ms ^C --- 10.1.56.2 ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.858/0.888/0.917/0.019 ms
You can also issue the traceroute command to verify that traffic to 10.1.56.2 travels over the IPSec tunnel between Router 2 and Router 3. Notice that the second hop does not reference 10.1.15.2—the physical interface on Router 3. Instead, the loopback address of 10.0.0.3 on Router 3 appears as the second hop. This indicates that the IPSec tunnel is operating correctly.
user@R1> traceroute 10.1.56.2
traceroute to 10.1.56.2 (10.1.56.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.1.12.1 (10.1.12.1) 0.655 ms 0.549 ms 0.508 ms 2 10.0.0.3 (10.0.0.3) 0.833 ms 0.786 ms 0.757 ms
3 10.1.56.2 (10.1.56.2) 0.808 ms 0.741 ms 0.716 ms
Router 2
Another way to verify that matched traffic is being diverted to the bidirectional IPSec tunnel is to view the firewall filter counter. After you issue the ping command from Router 1 (seven packets), the es-traffic firewall filter counter looks like this:
user@R2> show firewall filter es-traffic
Filter: es-traffic Counters: Name Bytes Packets ipsec-tunnel 588 7
After you issue the ping command from both Router 1 (seven packets) and Router 4 (five packets), the es-traffic firewall filter counter looks like this:
user@R2> show firewall filter es-traffic
Filter: es-traffic Counters: Name Bytes Packets ipsec-tunnel 1008 12
To verify that the IKE SA negotiation between Routers 2 and 3 is successful, issue the show ike security-associations detail command. Notice that the SA contains the settings you specified, such as SHA-1 for the authentication algorithm and 3DES-CBC for the encryption algorithm.
user@R2> show ike security-associations
detail
IKE peer 10.1.15.2 Role: Initiator, State: Matured Initiator cookie: b5dbdfe2f9000000, Responder cookie: a24c868410000041 Exchange type: Main, Authentication method: Pre-shared-keys Local: 10.1.15.1:500, Remote: 10.1.15.2:500 Lifetime: Expires in 401 seconds Algorithms: Authentication : sha1 Encryption : 3des-cbc Pseudo random function: hmac-sha1 Traffic statistics: Input bytes : 1736 Output bytes : 2652 Input packets: 9 Output packets: 15 Flags: Caller notification sent IPSec security associations: 3 created, 0 deleted Phase 2 negotiations in progress: 0
To verify that the IPSec security association is active, issue the show ipsec security-associations detail command. Notice that the SA contains the settings you specified, such as ESP for the protocol, HMAC-SHA1-96 for the authentication algorithm, and 3DES-CBC for the encryption algorithm.
user@R2> show ipsec security-associations
detail
Security association: sa-dynamic, Interface family: Up Local gateway: 10.1.15.1, Remote gateway: 10.1.15.2 Local identity: ipv4_subnet(any:0,[0..7]=10.1.12.0/24) Remote identity: ipv4_subnet(any:0,[0..7]=10.1.56.0/24) Direction: inbound, SPI: 2133029543, AUX-SPI: 0 Mode: tunnel, Type: dynamic, State: Installed Protocol: ESP, Authentication: hmac-sha1-96, Encryption: 3des-cbc Soft lifetime: Expires in 26212 seconds Hard lifetime: Expires in 26347 seconds Anti-replay service: Disabled Direction: outbound, SPI: 1759450863, AUX-SPI: 0 Mode: tunnel, Type: dynamic, State: Installed Protocol: ESP, Authentication: hmac-sha1-96, Encryption: 3des-cbc Soft lifetime: Expires in 26212 seconds Hard lifetime: Expires in 26347 seconds Anti-replay service: Disabled
Router 3
View the firewall filter counter to continue verifying that matched traffic is being diverted to the bidirectional IPSec tunnel. After you issue the ping command from Router 1 (seven packets), the es-traffic firewall filter counter looks like this:
user@R3> show firewall filter es-traffic
Filter: es-traffic Counters: Name Bytes Packets ipsec-tunnel 588 7
After you issue the ping command from both Router 1 (seven packets) and Router 4 (five packets), the es-traffic firewall filter counter looks like this:
user@R3> show firewall filter es-traffic
Filter: es-traffic Counters: Name Bytes Packets ipsec-tunnel 1008 12
To verify the success of the IKE security association, issue the show ike security-associations detail command. Notice that the SA on Router 3 contains the same settings you specified on Router 2.
user@R3> show ike security-associations
detail
IKE peer 10.1.15.1 Role: Responder, State: Matured Initiator cookie: b5dbdfe2f9000000, Responder cookie: a24c868410000041 Exchange type: Main, Authentication method: Pre-shared-keys Local: 10.1.15.2:500, Remote: 10.1.15.1:500 Lifetime: Expires in 564 seconds Algorithms: Authentication : sha1 Encryption : 3des-cbc Pseudo random function: hmac-sha1 Traffic statistics: Input bytes : 2652 Output bytes : 1856 Input packets: 15 Output packets: 10 Flags: Caller notification sent IPSec security associations: 3 created, 4 deleted Phase 2 negotiations in progress: 0
To verify that the IPSec security association is active, issue the show ipsec security-associations detail command. Notice that the SA on Router 3 contains the same settings you specified on Router 2.
user@R3> show ipsec security-associations
detail
Security association: sa-dynamic, Interface family: Up Local gateway: 10.1.15.2, Remote gateway: 10.1.15.1 Local identity: ipv4_subnet(any:0,[0..7]=10.1.56.0/24) Remote identity: ipv4_subnet(any:0,[0..7]=10.1.12.0/24) Direction: inbound, SPI: 1759450863, AUX-SPI: 0 Mode: tunnel, Type: dynamic, State: Installed Protocol: ESP, Authentication: hmac-sha1-96, Encryption: 3des-cbc Soft lifetime: Expires in 26427 seconds Hard lifetime: Expires in 26517 seconds Anti-replay service: Disabled Direction: outbound, SPI: 2133029543, AUX-SPI: 0 Mode: tunnel, Type: dynamic, State: Installed Protocol: ESP, Authentication: hmac-sha1-96, Encryption: 3des-cbc Soft lifetime: Expires in 26427 seconds Hard lifetime: Expires in 26517 seconds Anti-replay service: Disabled
Router 4
On Router 4, issue a ping command to the so-0/0/0 interface of Router 1 to send traffic across the IPSec tunnel.
user@R4> ping 10.1.12.2
user@R4> ping 10.1.12.2 PING 10.1.12.2 (10.1.12.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.1.12.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=13.528 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.12.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=0.873 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.12.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=32.145 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.12.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=253 time=0.921 ms 64 bytes from 10.1.12.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=253 time=0.899 ms ^C --- 10.1.12.2 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.873/9.673/32.145/12.255 ms
You can also issue the traceroute command to verify that traffic to 10.1.12.2 travels over the IPSec tunnel between Router 3 and Router 2. Notice that the second hop does not reference 10.1.15.1—the physical interface on Router 2. Instead, the loopback address of 10.0.0.2 on Router 2 appears as the second hop. This indicates that the IPSec tunnel is operating correctly.
user@R4> traceroute 10.1.12.2
traceroute to 10.1.12.2 (10.1.12.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.1.56.1 (10.1.56.1) 0.681 ms 0.624 ms 0.547 ms 2 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2) 0.800 ms 0.770 ms 0.737 ms 3 10.1.12.2 (10.1.12.2) 0.793 ms 0.742 ms 0.716 ms