ZS not forwarding IP address problem

[domu]

I can’t figure out how to set up ZS to forward original IP address.

For example, I have Asterisk server behind ZS. There are some
hacking attempts coming from outside, but in logs offending IP
address is always address of our ZS gateway.

Similar situation with L2L VPN, rsync mirroring server allows to
connect one particular IP from the subnet at our another branch,
but again, it fails because server receives ZS IP instead.

When using other routers (RV082) everything works as expected
out of the box.

What am I missing ?

[domu]

Anybody, please ?

[reaperz]

I am also using ZS for L2L VPN and I don’t have such problems.

Are you by chance using wrong-way NAT?

Go to “Router -> NAT” in menu

Under “NAT Enabled Interfaces” there should only be one interface – that is your external (WAN) interface, that has external IP-address from your ISP. No other interfaces should be under right tab!

[domu]

Thank you for your answer.

In the router section there are selected three PPPoE. as we utilize
Network Balancer feature of ZS router, so I guess that should not
cause that kind of problem. Especially that RV081 had similar
feature, and never experienced such issue.

[domu]

Two months and no answer ?

Is it really impossible to have in ZS feature which is a standard
in even simplest routers ?

Can anybody confirm/deny if it is possible at all ?

[Montikore]

Hi,

For what i understand, this is a misconfiguration on your side. Zeroshell is of course capable of ding this, as this is the basics of routing.
Please give more info about your configuration/architecture if you want to get help.

[domu]

Sure, here are the relevant points of the ZS setup

Setup -> Network ->
Gateway – [empty]
– that is supposed to be controlled by NetBalancer settings
NAT Enabled Interfaces [pppoe0,pppoe1,pppoe2]
– two FTTx redundant links + one aircard

ETH0 – LAN
ETH2/3/5 – pppoe

NetBalancer
– default gateway – [disabled]
– pppoe0 – fiber1 (active)
– pppoe1 – fiber2 (spare)
– ICMP failover checking [enabled]

Please let me know what else you would need to know.

[Montikore]

as suggested reaperz, did you check your NAT?
your external access interfaces (PPPoE) have to be under “NAT Enabled Interfaces” and nothing else.

[domu]

Yup, that’s exactly as it is. You can see it in my previous reply:
“NAT Enabled Interfaces [pppoe0,pppoe1,pppoe2]”

[Montikore]

do you use any port redirection / virtual server ?

[domu]

Yes I do. That is how servers are being “found” in the LAN.
Asterisk server among the others. The problem is that when
there is hacking attempt detected on Asterisk server – ofending
address is identified as IP of our ZS router, instead of external
IP address of the “attacker”.

If I only have an _external_ IP address in the server logs – the
problem is solved.

[Montikore]

this may be the problem then : if your server is accessed using virtual server, it means you use the zeroshell IP to access it and not its own IP, then this is not anymore basic routing and zeroshell processes the packets instead of just passing them through.

[domu]

Then how would you explain that any stock router that I know/used
– have virtual servers / port forwarding section
– passes external IPs to virtual servers in the NAT without any extra setup
?

[Montikore]

my answer was incomplete… this is the case when using the keyword MASQUARADE with iptable routing NAT, which is the default with ZS.
I don’t know how to do this from the web interface (not sure it’s even possible), but you have to use instead POSTROUTING.
I suggest you to search about this 2 different ways to do NAT to learn more about it.

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