IPSec secured interface over cellular

The 7705 SAR-Hm series of routers supports IPSec secured interfaces over cellular interfaces.

Figure: IPSec secured interface over a cellular interface shows an example of an IPSec secured interface deployment over a cellular interface in a dual SIM environment.

Figure: IPSec secured interface over a cellular interface

With IPSec secured interfaces, static IPSec tunnels can be created under the PDN router interface associated for each SIM. When the SIM is active and the node attaches to the cellular network, the PDN router interface becomes operational. At that time, IPSec secured interface tunnels configured on the interface also begin to establish toward the security gateway they are configured to connect to. When the tunnel is established, data traffic traverses the IPSec secured interface. In Figure: IPSec secured interface over a cellular interface, only the pair of tunnels associated with the active SIM is operational.

The tunnel pair on the second PDN router interface is kept down and becomes operational when the second SIM becomes active.

Each IPSec secured interface tunnel is associated with one service. The supported service types are IES and VPRN.

Each service that needs to be secured over the PDN router interface must be configured with its own IPSec secured interface tunnel. For example if VPRN1, VPRN2, and VPRN3 all need to be secured, then three different IPSec secured interfaces are required, one for each service.

IPSec secured interface is supported on IPv4 and IPv6 PDN router interfaces.

The CLI output below shows an example of IPSec secured interface configured on an IPv6 PDN router interface:

#--------------------------------------------------
echo "ISA Configuration"
#--------------------------------------------------
    isa
        tunnel-group 1 isa-scale-mode tunnel-limit-32 create
            reassembly 2000
            multi-active
            mda 1/5
            no shutdown
        exit
    exit
#--------------------------------------------------
echo "Router (Network Side) Configuration"
#--------------------------------------------------
    router Base
        interface "lte-interface1" pdn
            port 1/1/1
            ip-mtu 1500
            ipv6
            exit
            no shutdown
        exit
#--------------------------------------------------
echo "IPsec Configuration"
#--------------------------------------------------
    ipsec
        ike-transform 1 create
            dh-group 21
            ike-auth-algorithm sha384
            ike-encryption-algorithm des
        exit
        ike-policy 1 create
            ike-version 2
            dpd interval 10
            ike-transform 1
        exit
        ipsec-transform 1 create
            esp-auth-algorithm auth-encryption
            esp-encryption-algorithm aes256-gcm8
        exit
    exit
#--------------------------------------------------
echo "Service Configuration"
#--------------------------------------------------
    service
        vprn 1 name "vprn1" customer 1 create
            ipsec
                security-policy 1 create
                    entry 1 create
                        local-v6-ip 463c:f068:d815:e0ee:7ecf:5660::/96
                        remote-v6-ip c97e:a8fa:1785:52d7:9bb8:9b3b::/96
                    exit
                    entry 2 create
                        local-v6-ip 463c:f068:d815:e0ee:7ecf:5661::/96
                        remote-v6-ip c97e:a8fa:1785:52d7:9bb8:9b3c::/96
                    exit
                exit
            exit
            route-distinguisher 1.1.1.1:52
            static-route-entry c97e:a8fa:1785:52d7:9bb8::/80
                ipsec-tunnel "tunnel1-vprn1"
                    no shutdown
                exit
            exit
            no shutdown
        exit
    exit
#--------------------------------------------------
echo "Router (Service Side) Configuration"
#--------------------------------------------------
    router Base
        interface "lte-interface1" pdn
            ipsec tunnel-group 1 public-sap 1
                ipsec-tunnel "tunnel1-vprn1" private-sap 1 private-service-
name "vprn1" create
                    encapsulated-ip-mtu 1300
                    remote-gateway-address 2001:90:10:3::2
                    security-policy 1
                    dynamic-keying
                        ike-policy 1
                        pre-shared-key "2KMbfx1sfSVdLxLEJsuVhs/
hfa42V3XyCZMLyubX" hash2
                        transform 1
                    exit
                    no shutdown
                exit
                no shutdown
            exit
        exit
    exit