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On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:13 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 18:56 +0300, Daniel Lenski wrote:
>> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:10 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > After a lot of hard work and persistence by Dan, the GlobalProtect
>> > support is finally merged. Thanks!
>>
>> Woohoo. There would be several beer emojis here if the list weren't
>> plain-text-only. :-P
>
> It doesn't accept HTML crap but you *can* post UTF-8 text; this isn't
> the 20th century.
>
> If you want beer, you can have it? ?
>
> Besides, you didn't reply to the list anyway :)

Derp. Re-adding the list so they can have some ? too. I'm saddened
that I can't use the <blink> tag and vintage Java applets, however.

>> Persisting IP addresses, and requesting specific IP addresses. (I can
>> expand both of these to replicate the behavior for IPv6 addresses, but
>> have no way to test it currently.)
>>
>>   [0/2] Explanation.
>>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2017-December/004638.html
>>   [1/2] Make AnyConnect protocol request the same IPv4 address on reconnect.
>>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2017-December/004637.html
>> (already part of GPST)
>>   [2/2] Add CLI option to request specific IPv4 address, usable by
>> both AnyConnect and GP protocols.
>>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2017-December/004639.html
>
> Hm, I'm not keen on having those for Legacy IP only. Tell me more about
> the AnyConnect side ? is that against a Cisco ASA, or ocserv? We ought
> to be able to test the latter with IPv6, certainly.

Cisco ASA only. ocserv ignores X-CSTP-Address as a request header. I
suspect it'd be easy to add this behavior, though Nikos might have
some thoughts about security implications, and might want to make it
optional.

These flags *shouldn't* be necessary but I have access to one
badly-mangled Cisco VPN where I can only access certain hosts if I'm
connected via a specific IP-address.

Like I said, I *can* write the code to do it for IPv6 too? but I have
no way to test it against a real ASA since I currently don't have
access to a Cisco ASA that supports IPv6. GP is a similar situation
(https://github.com/dlenski/openconnect/issues/79). I have a
highly-educated guess about exactly how to add IPv6 support, but have
no way to test it.

> I wasn't aware that the Cisco ASA ever changed the IP address on
> reconnect of an active session.

No, I'm not aware of Cisco ever giving a new IP address when
reconnecting with the same cookie.

(GlobalProtect, however, will reliably drop the ball on this if I
don't include the parameter for a specific IP address ? which is why I
do it implicitly on reconnection.)

> It *does* change the IP address quite
> frequently when a session expires and you reconnect; can this be used
> to try to work around that?

Yes. Simply put, with --request-ip 1.2.3.4, all the Cisco ASAs I have
access to will assign me that IP address as long as it's available to
them, and ignore it otherwise.

>> Small patch for the NM-openconnect plugin, which is needed to make the
>> HIP script (--csd-wrapper) work correctly with GlobalProtect. Commit
>> message and comments have more gory details about why:
>>
>>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2018-May/004868.html
>
> That ends up running the user-provided csd_wrapper script as the system
> 'nm-openconnect' user. Is that sane?

When the current version runs CSD *in the authentication phase*, it
does so as the currently-logged-in user:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-openconnect/blob/master/auth-dialog/main.c#L1096

Is that the behavior you'd prefer to replicate when running in the
connection phase? It will only apply to GlobalProtect, currently,
since Cisco/Juniper protocols don't need to (and don't try to) run the
CSD script in the connection phase.

Dan



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