Prior to Cisco IOS Release 12.3(14)T, ISAKMP-profile and ISAKMP-keyring configurations could be only global, meaning that the scope of these configurations could not be limited by any locally defined parameters (VRF instances were an exception). For example, if an ISAKMP keyring contained a preshared key for address 10.11.12.13, the same key would be used if the peer had the address 10.11.12.13, irrespective of the interface or local address to which the peer was connected. There are situations, however, in which users prefer that associate keyrings be bound not only with virtual route forwarding (VRF) instances but also to a particular interface. For example, if instead of VRF instances, there are virtual LANS, and the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) is negotiated with a group of peers using one fixed virtual LAN (VLAN) interface. Such a group of peers uses a single preshared key, so if keyrings could be bound to an interface, it would be easy to define a wildcard key without risking that the keys would also be used for other customers.

Sometimes the identities of the peer are not in the control of the administrator, and even if the same peer negotiates for different customers, the local termination address is the only way to distinguish the peer. After such a distinction is made, if the traffic is sent to different VRF instances, configuring an ISAKMP profile is the only way to distinguish the peer. Unfortunately, when the peer uses an identical identity for all such situations, the ISAKMP profile cannot distinguish among the negotiations. For such scenarios, it would be beneficial to bind ISAKMP profiles to a local termination address. If a local termination address could be assigned, identical identities from the peer would not be a problem.

Effective with Cisco IOS Release 12.3(14)T, the SafeNet IPsec VPN Client Support feature allows you to limit the scope of ISAKMP profiles and ISAKMP keyrings to a local termination address or interface.

The benefit of this feature is that different customers can use the same peer identities and ISAKMP keys by using different local termination addresses.

1.    enable

2.    configure terminal

3.    crypto isakmp profile profile-name

4.    keyring keyring-name

5.    match identity address address

6.    local-address {interface-name | ip-address [vrf-tag ]}

1.    enable

2.    configure terminal

3.    crypto keyring keyring-name

4.    local-address {interface-name |ip-address[vrf-tag ]}

5.    pre-shared-key address address

1.    enable

2.    debug crypto isakmp

3.    show crypto isakmp profile

• Examples
  

If an ISAKMP profile or ISAKMP keyring fails to be selected, you should double-check the local-address binding in the ISAKMP profile or ISAKMP keyring configuration and follow the output of the IKE debugs to determine whether the peer is correctly terminating on the address. You may remove the local-address binding (to make the scope of the profile or keyring global) and check to determine whether the profile or keyring is selected to confirm the situation.