: Enable Overlay Routing for the VM-Series on AWS
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Enable Overlay Routing for the VM-Series on AWS

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Enable Overlay Routing for the VM-Series on AWS

Overly routing requires PAN-OS 10.0.5 or later.
Using overlay routing in your VM-Series firewall integration the AWS GWLB allows you to use two-zone policy to inspect traffic leaving (egressing) your AWS environment. This allows packets to leave the VM-Series firewall through a different interface than that which they entered through.
When overlay routing is configured, the firewall is able to perform a Layer 3 route lookup a packet’s inner header. If the destination is the same as the ingress interface, the packet will be directed as normal. All future packets in the session are treated as vwire; as if overlay routing was not enabled. If the packet is going to an outbound destination, the firewall decapsulates the packet and forwards the packet to the IGW or NAT gateway. When the packet returns, the firewall reapplies the encapsulation.
Use the following procedure to enable overlay routing.
  1. Before you begin, ensure that you create different subnets for the trust and untrust interfaces.
  2. Use overlay routing CLI command. This CLI command is not required if you included the overlay routing op-command in the AWS user-data or the init-cfg.txt bootstrap file.
    1. Log in to the firewall command line interface.
    2. Execute the following command.
      request plugins vm_series aws gwlb overlay-routing enable yes
  3. Log in to the firewall web interface.
  4. Disable
    Automatically create default route pointing to default gateway provided by server
    on the trust (ingress) interface.
    1. Select
      Network
      Interfaces
      Ethernet
      .
    2. Click on your trust interface and then the IPv4 tab.
    3. Uncheck
      Automatically create default route pointing to default gateway provided by server
      .
    4. Click OK.
  5. Configure interface Ethernet 1/2.
    1. Select
      Network
      Interfaces
      Ethernet
      .
    2. Select the
      Interface Type
      Layer 3
      .
    3. On the
      Config
      tab, expand the
      Security Zone
      drop-down and select
      New Zone
      . This zone will act as your untrust zone and directing outbound traffic out of your security VPC. Define the new zone, such as VM-Series-untrust, and then click
      OK
      .
    4. On the
      IPv4
      tab, select
      DHCP Client
      .
    5. Select
      Automatically create default route pointing to default gateway provided by server
      .
    6. Click
      OK
      .
  6. Configure a virtual router.
    1. Select
      Network
      Virtual Routers
      Add
      .
    2. Enter a descriptive
      Name
      for the virtual router.
    3. Under
      Interfaces
      ,
      Add
      Ethernet1/1, any subinterfaces under Ethernet1/1, and Ethernet1/2.
    4. Click
      Static Routes
      Add
      .
      1. Enter a descriptive name for the static route.
      2. As the
        Destination
        , enter the private IP address of the application VPC subnet.
      3. Select the trust (ingress) interface from the
        Interface
        drop-down.
      4. For
        Next Hop
        , select IP Address and enter the IP address of the gateway of the trust interface. You can find the gateway IP address on
        Network
        Interfaces
        Ethernet
        Dynamic-DHCP Client
        .
      5. Click
        OK
        .
    5. Ensure that the static routes can reach all application VPC in your deployment. You can either make a few large aggregated routes (covering all RFC1918) or application VPC specific routes. If you use subinterfaces, you do not need to route back to the sub-interface. The egress check looks only for the matching interface instead of the matching subinterface.
    6. Click
      OK
      .
  7. Create a NAT policy for traffic egressing Ethernet1/2.
    1. Select
      Policies
      NAT
      Add
      .
    2. Enter a descriptive
      Name
      for the NAT policy rule.
    3. Select
      ipv4
      from the
      NAT Type
      drop-down.
    4. On the
      Original Packet
      tab, set the
      Source Zone
      to any and the
      Destination Zone
      to your untrust (egress) zone.
    5. On the
      Translated Packet
      tab, set the following parameters.
      • Translation Type: Dynamic IP and Port
      • Address Type: Interface Address
      • Interface: Select your untrust (egress) port from the drop-down.
      • IP Address: None
    6. Click
      OK
      .
  8. Commit
    your changes.

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