Rerouting VPN Traffic from Cisco AnyConnect
I am connecting to a Client's network via the Cisco AnyConnect VPN. I'm quite impressed with the security of the client, it allows the VPN administrator to have alot of control over how the client can connect.
One problem I was facing though is that I couldn't connect to the internet while I am connected to the client's VPN. The VPN changed my default gateway to route everything through the VPN. Now since I don't want my internet traffic going through the VPN I have to change my default gateway back to my own router (192.168.2.1 in my case), I do that with the command (I'm on a Mac):
sudo route change default 192.168.2.1
Now I need to add a special routing rule to allow me to connect to the servers I need to get to on the VPN server (you may or may not need to do this):
sudo route add 192.168.123.0 10.1.1.1
Where 10.1.1.1 would be the VPN gateway, and 192.168.123.0 is the network the servers I need to connect to are on.
After doing all this you would think everything would be setup for me to work, but I still couldn't connect to the internet! When I tried to ping google this is what I get:
ping: sendto: Permission denied Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
It turns out after some digging I discovered that the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client was adding rules to my Mac's local firewall (ipfw). You can list the firewall rules using:
sudo ipfw -a list
One of the lines in there was:
01200 667 136583 deny ip from any to any
Which basically blocks all internet traffic except those that were specified explicitly specified by the VPN client. You can delete the rule using this command:
sudo ipfw delete 01200
Where 01200 is the first set of numbers on the line. You may want to add in some additional protection back as well, you can do that as you see fit. The key point of this blog entry though is to point out that the firewall was manipulated by the Cisco AnyConnect client, and in order to customize how it works you need to alter the firewall settings each time you connect.
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#!/bin/bash
# Add in your VPN networks to route here # For example : # VPNNETS="10.39.0.0/16 10.27.8.0/24 10.27.9.0/24" VPNNETS=""
if [ $UID -ne '0' ]; then echo "This program must be run as root, aborting." echo exit fi
IPFWLNGTH=`ipfw list|wc -l`
if [ $IPFWLNGTH -lt 2 ]; then echo "This program must be run immediately after the Cisco VPN, reconnect and try again." echo exit fi
LANIPR=`ipfw list |grep en|grep out|awk {'print $5;'}|uniq|awk -F. {'print $1 "." $2 "." $3 ".0/24";'}|xargs` LANTIP=`ipfw list |grep en|grep out|awk {'print $5;'}|uniq|awk -F. {'print $1 "." $2 "." $3;'}|xargs` LANIF=`ipfw list |grep en|grep out|grep any|awk {'print $12;'}|uniq|xargs` DLANGW=`netstat -rn |grep UGScI|awk {'print $2;'}` # LANGW is in order of interfaces so en0 is first LANGW=`netstat -rn |grep en|grep UHLI|awk {'print $2;'}|xargs` VPNIF=`netstat -rn |grep -P "^\d+.*utun1.*UCS.*$"|awk {'print $2;'}` VPNIP=`netstat -rn |grep -P "^\d+.*utun1.*UCS.*$"|awk {'print $1;'}` VPNGW=`ifconfig |grep -a1 utun1|grep inet|grep -v inet6|awk {'print $2;'}|xargs`
# Load arrays declare -a ALANIPR=($LANIPR); declare -a ALANTIP=($LANTIP); declare -a ALANIF=($LANIF); declare -a ALANGW=($LANGW); ## reverse ALANGW RLANGW=( $(echo ${ALANGW[@]} | awk '{for (i=NF;i>=1;i--) printf $i" "} END{print ""}') )
#Number of lans ALENG=${#ALANIPR[@]}
# Firewall Rule to delete FWALLRL=`ipfw -a list|grep "deny ip from any to any"|awk {'print $1;'}`
# Output section echo "Your number of lans is $ALENG" echo "Your lan IP Range is $LANIPR" echo "Your LAN 3 octet is $LANTIP" echo "Your LAN Interface is $LANIF" echo "Your Default LAN Gateway is $DLANGW" echo "Reverse Gateways are ${RLANGW[@]}" echo "Your VPN Interface is $VPNIF" echo "Your VPN IP Range is $VPNIP" echo "Your VPN Gateway is $VPNGW" echo echo "Enter the following as root to enable split tunnel" echo echo "ipfw delete $FWALLRL" echo "route delete default" for i in $LANTIP do echo "route delete -net $i" done echo "route add default $DLANGW -ifp ${ALANIF[0]}" for (( i=0; i<$ALENG; i++ )) do echo "route add -net ${ALANIPR[$i]} default -ifp ${ALANIF[$i]}" done for VPNNET in $VPNNETS do echo "route add -net $VPNNET $VPNGW -ifp $VPNIF" done
<code> #!/usr/bin/python
# The Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client is often configured on the server to block # all other Internet traffic. So you can be on the VPN <b>OR</b> you can have # access to Google, etc. # # This script will fix that problem by repairing your routing table and # firewall after you connect. # # The script does require admin (super user) access. If you are prompted for # a password at the start of the script, just enter your normal Mac login # password. # # The only thing you should need to configure is the vpn_ip_network. # Mine is 10.x.x.x so I just specify '10' but you could be more specific # and use something like '172.16' vpn_ip_network = '10'
import sys import subprocess
def output_of(cmd): lines = subprocess.Popen(cmd if isinstance(cmd, list) else cmd.split(' '), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).communicate()[0] try: lines = lines.decode('utf-8') except Exception: pass return [line.strip() for line in lines.strip().split('\n')]
sys.stdout.write("Mac Account Login ") good_firewall_ids = set([line.partition(' ')[0] for line in output_of('sudo ipfw -a list')]) sys.stdout.write('Firewall Saved.\n')
gateway = None for line in output_of('route get default'): name, delim, value = line.partition(':') if name == 'gateway': gateway = value.strip() p = subprocess.Popen(['/Applications/Cisco/Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client.app/Contents/MacOS/Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) was_disconnected = False while True: line = p.stdout.readline() if line == ' or p.poll(): sys.stdout.write("Never connected!\n") break try: line = line.decode('utf-8') except Exception: pass if 'Disconnected' in line: sys.stdout.write('Waiting for you to enter your VPN password in the VPN client...\n') was_disconnected = True if 'Connected' in line: if was_disconnected: subprocess.Popen(['sudo','route','-nv','add','-net',vpn_ip_network,'-interface','utun0'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).wait() subprocess.Popen(['sudo','route','change','default',gateway], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).wait() unfriendly_firewall_ids = list(set([line.partition(' ')[0] for line in output_of('sudo ipfw -a list')])-good_firewall_ids) extra = ' if unfriendly_firewall_ids: subprocess.Popen('sudo ipfw delete'.split(' ') + unfriendly_firewall_ids, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).wait() sys.stdout.write("VPN connection established, routing table repaired and %d unfriendly firewall rules removed!\n" % len(unfriendly_firewall_ids)) else: sys.stdout.write("VPN connection established and routing table repaired!\n") else: try: subprocess.Popen.kill(p) sys.stdout.write('VPN was already connected. Extra VPN client closed automatically.\n') except Exception: sys.stdout.write('VPN was already connected. Please close the extra VPN client.\n') break break else: sys.stdout.write("Couldn't get gateway. :-(\n") </code>
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