Hello,
i try to setup a IPSEC VPN (Site-by-Site or if not possible Client-BySite) between a Netgear Pro Safe Router and Windows Server 2012.
The Problem: Tunnel is up and running, but no Ping, no traffic at all.
the Server 2012 uses HyperV and has one hardware-NIC with public ip, lets say 123.123.123.1.
if no site-by-site is possible in my situation with built-in-tools this server would be only a client-site which would "dial-up" to the netgear box.
the server has a second virtual NIC with IP 192.168.137.1. Routing and RAS is enabled, because there are two virtual other servers whichs has 192.168.137.2 and 192.168.137.3.
The Netgear-ProSafe has public ip 122.122.122.1 and LAN-Subnet 192.168.21.0/24.
I created the Tunnel in the Advanced-Firewall-Options-Window. Both, Windows and the Router, say, the VPN-Tunnel is okay. Also, i can see ESP-Packets with wireshark.
If i ping (from router to server and other direction) i get no response. Some people said, the RAS itselfe could not accept packages, but i tried from one of the virtual clients also (192.168.137.2) and no ping there also.
i tried to add a route for subnet 192.168.21.0 with 192.168.137.1 as gateway but that didn't helped also.
now, after all this time i spend today to this problem i'm a bit confused.
as i know vpn-connections there are always virtual devices, and routes for the vpn-subnets assigned to this device.
the windows firewall does not create any device, and it does not create any route - i suppose, this is because "routing and ras or windows firewall-service" does this work "internally". is that correct? do i need any routes?
i was wondering why the ICMP packet from my ping in wireshark had the public ip as source (123.123.123.1) and not the "internal" 192.168.137.1 - and i tried to restrict the vpn-rule only for the virtual internal NIC but this isn't possible, as it is no option inside the gui.
it would be great if somebody could explain me how config and packages SHOULD look....i've never used the built-in vpn/ipsec/ras services before, so i don't know how things has to be for a correct working environment. also, i need a solution and any help
to solve the problem would be great also!
now i try to sleep one night - maybe i get some nice idea after some hours of sleeping. good night.
Addition: After some more tests i find out that if i change the local endpoint (endpoint 1) from the virtual network (192.168.137.0/24) to the public ip of the server (123.123.123.1) inside the tunnel-rule and inside the vpn-policy of the router i can access
the netgear and other devices in the remote-network 192.168.21.0 over this ip-adresses. ping is not working, but other things seems to work fine. i want to be able to ping as well ofcourse and this wired configuration looks wrong to me...can some network-professional
help out with an explanation?
Second Addition: I can set the Local Endpoint also to "any" and it does work - but ping still does not work :-(
Third Addition: The Ping does work if i disable the NAT-Functionality on the Physical NIC. ....mhm.....