Create a Hub-and-Spoke (Establishment by Spokes) VPN

Name

Enter a unique string of alphanumeric characters, colons, periods, dashes, and underscores; spaces are not allowed; maximum length is 62 characters.

Description

Enter a description for the VPN; maximum length is 255 characters.

Routing Topology

Select one of the following options:

• Traffic Selector (Auto Route Insertion)—A traffic selector is an agreement between Internet Key Exchange (IKE) peers to permit traffic through a tunnel if the traffic matches a specified pair of local and remote addresses.

• Static routing—Generates static routing based on the protected networks or zones per device.

• OSPF-Dynamic Routing—Generates OSPF configuration.

• RIP-Dynamic Routing—Generates RIP configuration.

• eBGP-Dynamic Routing—Generates eBGP configuration.

VPN Profile

Select a VPN profile from the drop-down list based on the deployment scenario.

Default profile is applicable to a particular IPsec VPN only. You can view and edit the details by clicking View IKE/IPsec settings on the Create IPsec VPN page.

Shared profile can be used by one or more IPsec VPNs. You can only view the details of the shared profiles by clicking View IKE/IPsec settings on the Create IPsec VPN page.

If you select the VPN Profile value as Default, then while saving the IPsec VPN, you’ll need to save the new profile as either VPN specific or shared. If you are saving it as shared, then the profile will be listed on the VPN Profiles page.

Authentication Method

Select an authentication method from the list that the device uses to authenticate the source of Internet Key Exchange (IKE) messages.

• Pre-shared based—Specifies that a pre-shared key, which is a secret key shared between the two peers, is used during authentication to identify the peers to each other. The same key must be configured for each peer.

• RSA Signatures—Specifies that a public key algorithm, which supports encryption and digital signatures, is used.

• DSA Signatures—Specifies that the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) is used.

• ECDSA-Signatures-256—Specifies that the Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) using the 256-bit elliptic curve secp256r1, as specified in the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Digital Signature Standard (DSS) 186-3 is used.

• ECDSA-Signatures-384—Specifies that the ECDSA using the 384-bit elliptic curve secp384r1, as specified in the FIPS DSS 186-3 is used.

Pre-shared Key

Establish a VPN connection using pre-shared keys, which is essentially a password that is same for both parties.

Select the type of pre-shared key you want to use:

• Autogenerate—Select if you want to automatically generate a unique key per tunnel. When selected, the Generate Unique key per tunnel option is automatically enabled. If you disable Generate Unique key per tunnel option, Security Director generates a single key for all tunnels.

• Manual—Select to enter the key manually. By default, the manual key is masked.

Network IP

Enter the IP address of the numbered interface. This is the subnet address from where the IP address is automatically assigned for tunnel interfaces.

Max Transmission Unit

Select the maximum transmission unit (MTU) in bytes. This defines the maximum size of an IP packet, including the IPsec overhead. You can specify the MTU value for the tunnel endpoint. The valid range is 68 to 9192 bytes. The default value is 1500 bytes.

Hub

Select Devices as hubs.

Spoke

Select Devices as spokes.

Available

View all devices from the current and child domains, with view parent enabled. Devices from the child domain with view parent disabled are not shown.

Select hub and spoke devices.

The following filter criteria are applied for the device selection:

• SRX Series devices mapped to Junos OS Release 12.1X46 and later Junos-es schemas are not listed.

• Logical systems and tenant systems are not listed.

• Routing option is not applicable.

External Interface

Select the outgoing interface for IKE security associations (SAs). This interface is associated with a zone that acts as its carrier, providing firewall security for it.

Tunnel Zone

Select the tunnel zone. They are logical areas of address space that can support dynamic IP (DIP) address pools for NAT applications to pre- and post-encapsulated IPsec traffic.

Tunnel zones also provide great flexibility in combining tunnel interfaces with VPN tunnels.

Metric

Specify the cost for an access route for the next hop.

Routing instance

Select the required routing instance.

Certificate

Select a certificate to authenticate the virtual private network (VPN) initiator and recipient.

This is applicable in one of the following scenarios:

• The VPN profile is RSA profile or ADVPN profile.

• The authentication method is RSA-Signatures, DSA-Signatures, ECDSA-Signatures-256, or ECDSA-Signatures-384.

Trusted CA/Group

Select the certificate authority (CA) profile from the list to associate it with the local certificate.

This is applicable in one of the following scenarios:

• The VPN profile is RSA profile or ADVPN profile.

• The authentication method is RSA-Signatures, DSA-Signatures, ECDSA-Signatures-256, or ECDSA-Signatures-384.

Export

• Select the Static Routes check box to export static routes.

  Security Director simplifies VPN address management by enabling the administrator to export static routes to a remote site over a tunnel, allowing the static route networks to participate in the VPN. However, only devices on the hub side can export static default routes to the device side. Devices at the spoke side cannot export static default routes over a tunnel.

  Note:

  For eBGP Dynamic Routing, by default, the Static Routes check box is selected.

• Select the RIP Routes check box to export RIP routes.

  Note:

  You can export RIP routes only when Routing Topology is OSPF Dynamic Routing.

• Select the OSPF Routes check box to export OSPF routes.

  Note:

  You can export OSPF routes only when Routing Topology is RIP-Dynamic Routing.

  If you select OSPF or RIP export, the OSPF or RIP routes outside the VPN network is imported into a VPN network through OSPF or RIP Dynamic routing protocols.

OSPF Area

Select an OSPF area ID within the range of 0 to 4,294,967,295, where the tunnel interfaces of this VPN need to be configured.

This is applicable when the Routing Topology is OSPF-Dynamic Routing.

Max Retransmission Time

Select the retransmission timer to limit the number of times the RIP demand circuit re-sends update messages to an unresponsive peer. If the configured retransmission threshold is reached, routes from the next-hop router are marked as unreachable and the hold-down timer starts. You must configure a pair of RIP demand circuits for this timer to take effect.

The retransmission range is from 5 through 180 seconds and the default value is 50 seconds.

AS Number

Select a unique number to assign to the autonomous system (AS). The AS number identifies an autonomous system and enables the system to exchange exterior routing information with other neighboring autonomous systems. The valid range is from 0 through 4294967295.

Protected Networks

Configure the addresses or interface type for the selected device to protect one area of the network from the other.

When a dynamic routing protocol is selected, the interface option is displayed.

IKE Version

Select the required IKE version, either V1 or V2, that is used to negotiate dynamic security associations (SAs) for IPsec. By default, IKE V2 is used.

Mode

Select an IKE policy mode.

• Main—Uses six messages in three peer-to-peer exchanges to establish the IKE SA. These three steps include the IKE SA negotiation, a Diffie-Hellman exchange, and authentication of the peer. Also provides identity protection.

• Aggressive—Takes half the number of messages of main mode, has less negotiation power, and does not provide identity protection.

Encryption-algorithm

Select the appropriate encryption mechanism.

Authentication-algorithm

Select an algorithm. The device uses this algorithm to verify the authenticity and integrity of a packet.

Deffie Hellman group

Select a group. Diffie-Hellman (DH) groups determine the strength of the key used in the key exchange process.

Lifetime-seconds

Select a lifetime of an IKE security association (SA). The valid range is from 180 through 86,400 seconds.

Dead Peer Detection

Enable to permit the two gateways to determine if the peer gateway is up and responding to the Dead Peer Detection (DPD) messages that are negotiated during IPsec establishment.

DPD Mode

Select a DPD Mode.

• Optimized: R-U-THERE messages are triggered if there is no incoming IKE or IPsec traffic within a configured interval after the device sends outgoing packets to the peer. This is the default mode.

• Probe Idle Tunnel: R-U-THERE messages are triggered if there is no incoming or outgoing IKE or IPsec traffic within a configured interval. R-U-THERE messages are sent periodically to the peer until there is traffic activity.

• Always-send: R-U-THERE messages are sent at configured intervals regardless of traffic activity between the peers.

DPD Interval

Select an interval in seconds to send dead peer detection messages. The default interval is 10 seconds, with a permissible range of 2 to 60 seconds.

DPD Threshold

Select the failure DPD threshold value. This specifies the maximum number of times the DPD messages must be sent when there is no response from the peer. The default number of transmissions is 5 times, with a permissible range of 1 to 5.

General IKE ID

Enable this option to accept peer IKE ID. This option is disabled by default. If General IKE ID is enabled, the IKE ID option is disabled automatically.

IKEv2 Re Authentication

Select a reauthentication frequency. Reauthentication can be disabled by setting the reauthentication frequency to 0.

Range is 0 to 100.

IKEv2 Re Fragmentation Support

IKEv2 fragmentation splits a large IKEv2 message into a set of smaller ones so that there is no fragmentation at the IP level.

IKEv2 Re-fragment Size

Select the size of the packet at which messages are fragmented. By default, the size is 576 bytes for IPv4.

Range is 570 to 1320.

IKE ID

Select an option:

• None

• Distinguished name

• Hostname

• IPv4 address

• E-mail Address

IKE ID is applicable only when General IKE ID is disabled.

NAT-T

Enable Network Address Translation-Traversal (NAT-T) if the dynamic endpoint is behind a NAT device.

Keep Alive

Select a value. NAT Keepalives are required to maintain the NAT translation during the connection between the VPN peers. Range is from 1 to 300 seconds.

Protocol

Select the required protocol to establish the VPN.

• ESP—The Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) protocol provides both encryption and authentication.

• AH—The Authentication Header (AH) protocol provides data integrity and data authentication.

Encryption Algorithm

Select the necessary encryption method.

This is applicable if the Protocol is ESP.

Authentication Algorithm

Select an algorithm. The device uses these algorithms to verify the authenticity and integrity of a packet.

Perfect Forward Secrecy

Select Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) as the method that the device uses to generate the encryption key. The PFS generates each new encryption key independently from the previous key. The higher numbered groups provide more security but require more processing time.

Establish Tunnel

Select an option to specify when IKE is activated.

• Immediately—IKE is activated immediately after VPN configuration changes are committed.

• On-traffic—IKE is activated only when data traffic flows and must be negotiated with the peer gateway. This is the default behavior.

VPN Monitor

Enable this option to send Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) to determine if the VPN is up.

Optimized

When VPN monitoring optimization is enabled, the SRX Series device only sends ICMP echo requests (pings) when there is outgoing traffic and no incoming traffic from the configured peer, through the VPN tunnel. If there is incoming traffic through the VPN tunnel, the SRX Series device considers the tunnel to be active and does not send pings to the peer.

Anti Replay

By default, Anti-Replay detection is enabled. IPsec protects against a VPN attack by using a sequence of numbers that are built into the IPsec packet—the system does not accept a packet for which it has already seen the same sequence number. It checks the sequence numbers and enforces the check, rather than just ignoring the sequence numbers. Disable it if there is an error with the IPsec mechanism that results in out-of-order packets, preventing proper functionality.

Install interval

Select the maximum number of seconds to allow for the installation of a re-keyed outbound security association (SA) on the device.

Idle Time

Select the appropriate idle time interval. The sessions and their corresponding translations typically time out after a certain period if no traffic is received.

DF Bit

Select an option to process the Don’t Fragment (DF) bit in IP messages.

• Clear—Disable the DF bit from the IP messages. This is the default.

• Copy—Copy the DF bit to the IP messages.

• Set—Enable the DF bit in the IP messages.

Copy Outer DSCP

Enable copying of Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) field from the outer IP header encrypted packet to the inner IP header plain text message on the decryption path. The benefit in enabling this feature is that after IPsec decryption, clear text packets can follow the inner class-of-service (CoS) rules.

Lifetime Seconds

Select a lifetime of an IKE security association (SA). The valid range is from 180 through 86,400 seconds.

Lifetime kilobytes

Select the lifetime (in kilobytes) of an IPsec security association (SA). The range is from 64 through 4294967294 kilobytes.