This repository contains the configuration of a PA-220 to set it up for Global Protect VPN. The screenshots of configuration steps in the GUI can be found in the steps.md file
Background information on lab concepts can be found in the respective write-up, which is located here: https://101zh.github.io/networking/
The purpose of this lab is to configure a remote access method that an employee could use in a corporate setting to access the company office’s network remotely. To complete this task a virtual private network (VPN) must be set up by configuring a portal, gateway and tunnel that clients can use to gain access to the local area network (LAN) of an office network. Additionally, some machines in the LAN will be arranged to receive remote desktop protocol (RDP) packets, so that employees can access machines with possibly sensitive information that must remain at offices.
In this lab, a Global Protect portal and gateway were configured to allow access to a LAN from the outside using a VPN connection. Additionally, RDP was configured on a machine inside the LAN, so that VPN clients can remotely access machines on the LAN using remote desktop connection software. In this diagram, PC 1 acts as the machine that a VPN client can initiate an RDP connection with after using GlobalProtect client to get into the LAN. It is important to note that in an actual professional environment, this machine should have a static IP, a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), or have a domain entry assigned to it by the VPN server published to the client; but this is outside of the scope of this lab.
This Topology is for IPv4. All 192.168.1.xx addresses are for the user LAN.
- One Palo Alto Networks PA-220 NGFW running 10.2.13-h7
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