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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:33:09 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Terje Elde <terje@elde.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, frank2@fjl.co.uk
Subject:   Re: VPN where local private address collide
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Terje Elde <terje@elde.net> wrote:

> On 18. aug. 2013, at 02.43, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > > What about SSL/TLS for example?  How would the router swap the header
> in an encrypted session?
> >
> > Same as it would any sessions since only the payload is encrypted.  What
> Frank calls basic nat, most people call static nat(at least people who have
> read enough Cisco docs) and it works just fine. Also you are confusing
> headers.
>
> The point I was aiming for was that even if you were to swap the IPs in
> the IP-header on the gateway, some protocols still reference the IPs inside
> the TCP-payload,


Yes like IPSec as I mentioned.


> and while you can rewrite that on a NAT-box using an application level
> gateway, you can not do that if the session is using SSL or TLS.
>

Complete BS.


>
> I was referring to headers *inside* the SSL/TLS-layers.  I thought that
> was obvious, but I see I might not have been clear enough.
>

Not clear in the least.  Expanding on what is so difficult about might do a
lot of us some good.


>
> Yes, you can often still resolve it on the server, but just how messy does
> one want to get stacking workaround on top of workaround,
>

Despite your protestations to the contrary,  NAT and SIP work quite weil
together in basic configurations including TLS and the OP's scenario.   I
can't explain your difficulties but perhaps when you aren't at a mobile
device you could answer a question in depth.


The server would register that the phone is available at 192.168.0.200
> (locally, in lan_b), while the server would actually need to send to
> 192.168.2.200, in order to reach 192.168.0.200 in lan_a.




> Exactly how this would behave depends on a lot of factors, but you'd
> quickly end up with a situation in which the phone *appears* to work, can
> register against the server and call out (both client-initiated), but where
> incoming calls just don't work (sent to 192.168.0.200 in lan_b, rather than
> in lan_a).


Could you could post your config to demonstrate what you are doing
incorrectly?

-- 
Adam Vande More



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