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
- 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 forgp.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-checkwalks the HTTPS conversation an app has with the portal and gateway, and prints what each step returns.gp-connectdoes the same, then builds a real SSL tunnel to the gateway as an interface calledgp0, so you can send traffic through it.gp-disconnectlogs 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 asadmin/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
- How GlobalProtect works
- Certificate and SSL/TLS profile
- Authentication
- The gateway
- The portal
- Policy for remote users
- Walk the client conversation
- 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.
Every link, as text
- FW1
mgmtto Inside (network) - FW1
ethernet1/1to Outside (network) - FW1
ethernet1/2to Inside (network) - FW1
ethernet1/3to DMZ (network) - Client-PC
eth0to Inside (network) - web01
eth0to DMZ (network) - Internet
eth0to Outside (network)
| Node | Device | Image in Add Node | Set to |
|---|---|---|---|
| FW1 | Palo Alto Networks VM-Series (PAN-OS) | paloalto-11.2.5 | 2 vCPU, 5,632 MB |
| Client-PC | EVE-NG GUI server (Docker) | eve-gui-server:latest | 1 vCPU, 1,024 MB |
| web01 | EVE-NG GUI server (Docker) | eve-gui-server:latest | 1 vCPU, 512 MB |
| Internet | EVE-NG GUI server (Docker) | eve-gui-server:latest | 1 vCPU, 512 MB |
How to open this lab
Sign in to your workspace at
lab.cloudlabbox.com.In File Manager, open Shared, then the folder
Palo Alto NGFW PAN-OS 11 guided labs.Open
21 - GlobalProtect remote access - portal gateway authentication and split tunnellingand 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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