routing from remote network across non-Meraki VPN Peer

[BrentB]

OK .. odd routing question .. I have a location that has an established non-Meraki VPN peer. Just an FYI the peer on the other end is Meraki but it is in a different organization. One of the address spaces in this peer is say 192.168.56.0/24. I have a Z3 that we setup with a space of 10.148.109.0/24 in the Lab. We are trying to get from the Z3 devices across the non-meraki VPN peer to a device in the 56.0/24 space. At the moment this is not working. I think we just need a route on the other side of the peer pointing towards us or does this actually need to be defined as part of the peer? First time I have had anyone ask for access like this. Usually it has just been local over the peers. Thoughts ..

Brent

[ww]

third-party VPN does not participate in the auto VPN. So you would need a direct 3rd party vpn tunnel between the z3 and the peer

[sinelnyyk · Accepted solution]

Hi @BrentB,

Is my understanding correct that your topology is the following: Z3 <-AutoVPN-> MX_A <-Non-Meraki VPN-> MX_B in other org; and you are trying to route traffic between Z3 and MX_B through MX_A?
If so, unfortunately, this won't be possible.

The KB says (in a blue note): "An MX that builds tunnels to both Auto VPN and Non-Meraki VPN peers will not route traffic between other Auto VPN peers and the non-Meraki VPN peers unless BGP routing over IPsec VPN is enabled for the latter." 

With this said, you can try to configure this new route-based tunnel with BGP over IPsec, and then in theory routes within the same org should be advertised via iBGP, and from the outside - via eBGP, but honestly, I never worked with this feature so not 100% sure it'll work, but if it does, it fur sure will be a good solution. 

If that doesn't work though, I'm afraid the only way to communicate from Z3 to MX_B is a direct non-Meraki VPN tunnel between them.

[BrentB]

Sinelnyyk,

That is what we are trying. Z3 connected to MX_A that is non-meraki VPN connected the MX_B in a different org. Trying to get Z3 access to network behind MX_B. We were thinking it was something routing related as the MX_B network was not in the route table on the Z3 but is on MX_A. easiest test would be to go the VPN tunnel route between Z3 and MX_B. if we get this working they will have three others in the same situation.

Thanks