Deploy the Pan-redirector Agent

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Uninstall Pan-redirect and Other Pan-redirect Commands

Deploy the Pan-redirector Agent

Steps to deploy the pan-redirector agent.

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The following are the steps to deploy the pan-redirector agent:

Install the panredirect agent.
1. Download the panredirect installer package from the Customer Support Portal (CSP).
2. Install the panredirect package by providing the executable permissions for the package.
Verify the panredirect agent is installed.
1. Execute the command pan redirect version to verify the version of the pan redirector agent installed.
  [root@rhel9 ~]# panredirect version panredirect 0.9.0-3

Set the firewall destination IP.

Configure the firewall IP by executing the following command.

panredirect configure --fwip <ip address of the firewall>
For example, panredirect configure --fwip 192.0.2.10

If you are using a loadbalancer or a network loadbalancer in azure then, use the firewall subnet option since ilb IP is different from the firewall. For example, if load balancer front-end IP is 10.0.3.4, firewall in the backend pool are on 10.0.4.0/24 subnet, and firewalls perform direct-return from that subnet, then configure:

sudo panredirect configure --fwip 10.0.3.4 --fwsubnet 10.0.3.0/24

Verify that the firewall's configured IP address can be accessed by the client.

Enabling panredirect on the management interface may result in losing SSH connections. To avoid this situation:

Use the exception IP:
```
panredirect configure [-h] --fwip FWIP [--exception MGMT_IP]
```
Or

Steering rules:

panredirect rule insert [-h] --index INDEX 
               --interface INTERFACE --proto PROTO 
               [--remoteip REMOTEIP] [--remoteport REMOTEPORT] 
               [--localip LOCALIP][--localport LOCALPORT] 
               --action {pass,redirect}

Insert redirect rule at the specific position.

options:
  -h, --help                                     show this help message and exit
  --index INDEX                           Index to insert the rule
  --interface INTERFACE             Interface name
  --proto PROTO                          IP protocol (tcp, udp, hex number or 'any')
  --remoteip REMOTEIP              Source CIDR or 'any'
  --remoteport REMOTEPORT    Source port (TCP/UDP only)
  --localip LOCALIP                     Destination CIDR or 'any'
  --localport LOCALPORT           Destination port (TCP/UDP only)
  --action {pass,redirect}              pass traffic directly to the system or redirect to firewall

The panredirect rule list.

panredirect rule list

panredirect rule append [-h] --interface INTERFACE --proto PROTO 
              [--remoteip REMOTEIP] [--remoteport REMOTEPORT] 
              [--localip LOCALIP] [--localport LOCALPORT]
              --action {pass,redirect}

options:
  -h, --help                                   show this help message and exit
  --interface INTERFACE            Interface name
  --proto PROTO                         IP protocol (tcp, udp or hex number)
  --remoteip REMOTEIP             Source CIDR or 'any'
  --remoteport REMOTEPORT   Source port (TCP/UDP only)
  --localip LOCALIP                    Destination CIDR or 'any'
  --localport LOCALPORT          Destination port (TCP/UDP only)
  --action {pass,redirect}             pass traffic directly to the system or redirect to firewall

Observe that a logical interface named pangv0 is created for the purpose of encapsulation.
Geneve encapsulation leads to a decrease in the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU). For instance, if Docker is using bridge networking with an MTU of 1500, this could cause connectivity problems for containers during active redirection. In such cases, the MTU should be reduced to 1440.
The tcp-segmentation-offload (TSO), generic-receive-offload (GSO) and large-receive-offload (LRO) are also set to off.

[root@rhel9 ~]# ethtool -k ens256
Features for ens256:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
	tx-checksum-ipv4: on
	tx-checksum-ip-generic: off [fixed]
	tx-checksum-ipv6: on
	tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]
	tx-checksum-sctp: on
scatter-gather: on
	tx-scatter-gather: on
	tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed]
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
	tx-tcp-segmentation: off
	tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off
	tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: off
	tx-tcp6-segmentation: off
generic-segmentation-offload: off
generic-receive-offload: off
large-receive-offload: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-offload: on
tx-vlan-offload: on
ntuple-filters: off [fixed]
receive-hashing: on
highdma: on
rx-vlan-filter: on [fixed]
vlan-challenged: off [fixed]
tx-lockless: off [fixed]
netns-local: off [fixed]
tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]
tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-gre-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-gre-csum-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-ipxip4-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-ipxip6-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-gso-partial: off [fixed]
tx-tunnel-remcsum-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-sctp-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-esp-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-udp-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-gso-list: off [fixed]
fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]
tx-nocache-copy: off
loopback: off [fixed]
rx-fcs: off [fixed]
rx-all: off [fixed]
tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-stag-hw-parse: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-stag-filter: off [fixed]
l2-fwd-offload: off [fixed]
hw-tc-offload: off [fixed]
esp-hw-offload: off [fixed]
esp-tx-csum-hw-offload: off [fixed]
rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload: off [fixed]
tls-hw-tx-offload: off [fixed]
tls-hw-rx-offload: off [fixed]
rx-gro-hw: off [fixed]
tls-hw-record: off [fixed]
rx-gro-list: off
macsec-hw-offload: off [fixed]
rx-udp-gro-forwarding: off
hsr-tag-ins-offload: off [fixed]
hsr-tag-rm-offload: off [fixed]
hsr-fwd-offload: off [fixed]
hsr-dup-offload: off [fixed]

Enable the interface intended for traffic redirection.

Execute the following command to enable traffic redirection on the interface:

panredirect enable <interface>

[root@rhel9 ~]# panredirect enable ens256
2026-02-23 22:46:28,590 - INFO - Enabled redirection on ens256

[root@rhel9 ~]# panredirect status
IF              FW_IP            VNI    IF_MAC             ACT
ens224          192.168.101.1    48813  00:50:56:95:f2:6e  yes
[root@rhel9 ~]# panredirect health_check
OK
[root@rhel9 ~]# panredirect rule list
ifname          idx proto remoteip        rport localip         lport action  
ens224          0   any   any             any   any             any   redirect
[root@rhel9 ~]# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens192: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:95:94:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp11s0
    inet 10.6.250.61/22 brd 10.6.251.255 scope global noprefixroute ens192
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 2620:130:800a:2110:250:56ff:fe95:9453/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute 
       valid_lft 2591843sec preferred_lft 604643sec
    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe95:9453/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ens224: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:95:f2:6e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp19s0
    inet 192.168.101.5/24 brd 192.168.101.255 scope global noprefixroute ens224
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe95:f26e/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: ens256: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:95:17:dd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp27s0
5: pangnv0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1440 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether de:88:0a:f4:3e:9a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::dc88:aff:fef4:3e9a/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

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