Palo Alto NGFW lab 21 of 30

GlobalProtect remote access: portal, gateway, authentication and split tunnelling

Build GlobalProtect for Calder's travelling staff: certificates and an SSL/TLS profile, local-database authentication, a portal that hands out the gateway, a gateway with an IP pool and split-tunnel routes, and policy for the GP-Users zone. Then walk the client's conversation with the portal and gateway, connect a test laptop through a real SSL tunnel, and read the firewall's view of the user and the traffic.

Run this lab

It needs Lite: its 4 nodes are set to 5 vCPU and 7,680 MB in total. That fits the free demo too.

In your workspace: Shared, then Palo Alto NGFW PAN-OS 11 guided labs, then 21 - GlobalProtect remote access - portal gateway authentication and split tunnelling

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Level
Advanced
Time
About 75 minutes
Nodes need
5 vCPU, 7,680 MB
Smallest plan
Lite

The scenario

Calder's sales team works from customers' sites and needs the intranet (web01) and the depot LAN, but nothing else, through the company. You'll build GlobalProtect on FW1's internet interface:

  • portal and gateway on 203.0.113.2, with a certificate for gp.calder.lab;
  • users authenticated against the local user database (alice / Alice-Access-5);
  • remote users get an address from 10.9.9.0/24 and routes only for 10.1.1.0/24 and 172.16.1.0/24 (split tunnel). Their own internet traffic stays local.

The Internet node plays alice's laptop. The lab images include no GlobalProtect app, so that node has three small commands written for this lab:

  • gp-check walks the HTTPS conversation an app has with the portal and gateway, and prints what each step returns.
  • gp-connect does the same, then builds a real SSL tunnel to the gateway as an interface called gp0, so you can send traffic through it.
  • gp-disconnect logs out and closes the tunnel.

They aren't the GlobalProtect app. They use SSL only, where the app tries IPsec first; they send no host information (HIP) report; and they don't check the firewall's certificate.

Before you start. Start all the nodes. The firewall takes 6-8 minutes to boot and comes up with this lab's starting configuration already loaded. Wait until the FW1 console shows FW1 login:, then log in as admin / Lab-Access-1. Until the management plane is ready it answers Login incorrect, even with the right password. The Linux hosts are ready within seconds.

What you’ll practise

  • Explain the roles of the GlobalProtect portal, gateway and app, and the order they're contacted
  • Create the certificate, SSL/TLS service profile and authentication profile GlobalProtect needs
  • Configure a portal with client authentication and an agent configuration
  • Configure a gateway with a tunnel interface, IP pool and split-tunnel access routes
  • Verify the portal and gateway exchanges, a live tunnel and the security policy for VPN users

The tasks

  1. How GlobalProtect works
  2. Certificate and SSL/TLS profile
  3. Authentication
  4. The gateway
  5. The portal
  6. Policy for remote users
  7. Walk the client conversation
  8. Connect and send traffic

The Lab Tasks pane has the scenario, these tasks, the checks to run, hints and the full solution.

Topology and devices

The network as it opens in EVE-NG, drawn from the lab’s own canvas, and the image each node runs.

Topology of GlobalProtect remote access - portal gateway authentication and split tunnelling4 nodes and 3 networks, 7 links. Every link is listed as text below the diagram.FW1Client-PCweb01InternetInsideOutsideDMZeth0ethernet1/3eth0mgmtethernet1/2eth0ethernet1/1
4 nodes and 3 networks, with the interface names each link uses. On a narrow screen, scroll the diagram sideways.
Nodes in GlobalProtect remote access: portal, gateway, authentication and split tunnelling, with the image each runs and the vCPU and RAM it’s set to
NodeDeviceImage in Add NodeSet to
FW1Palo Alto Networks VM-Series (PAN-OS)paloalto-11.2.52 vCPU, 5,632 MB
Client-PCEVE-NG GUI server (Docker)eve-gui-server:latest1 vCPU, 1,024 MB
web01EVE-NG GUI server (Docker)eve-gui-server:latest1 vCPU, 512 MB
InternetEVE-NG GUI server (Docker)eve-gui-server:latest1 vCPU, 512 MB

How to open this lab

  1. Sign in to your workspace at lab.cloudlabbox.com.

  2. In File Manager, open Shared, then the folder Palo Alto NGFW PAN-OS 11 guided labs.

  3. Open 21 - GlobalProtect remote access - portal gateway authentication and split tunnelling and start its nodes, then open Lab Tasks for the scenario and the steps.

The lab is read-only. You can start the nodes and configure the devices, but changes to the topology can’t be saved. To change it, rebuild it in your own folder.

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