On 12/23/18 8:21 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
Can the phone server in A talk to a system in B? Or does the magic need
to happen on a multi-homed host that is in both the Voice VLAN (A) and
data VLAN (B)?
Yes, I control the router, poking a hole allowing port 25 from the phone
server IP to the mail relay IP is trivial. This would lessen the need
for a multi-homed server - although that is possible too as the
infrastructure is virtualized.
I've never had to deal with a server in this manner before... needing
to go through a different vlan/vpn. Hence my thought of a mail relay.
I believe the mail relay, particularly if it's multi-homed in both voice
and data VLANs, is a viable option.
I was messing with source and destination nat but because of the site
vpn addressing, and the phone server not being in that address
range... I'm pretty sure that's why it wasn't working.
Depending where you do it, I would expect that the NAT would work.
Hypothetical scenario:
Voice VLAN = 192.0.2.0/24
Local Data VLAN = 198.51.100.0/24
Remote Data VLAN = 203.0.113.0/24
I'm guessing that you need to get voice messages as attachments from the
VoIP PBX, 192.0.2.123, to the corporate email server, 203.0.113.234. The
problem is the site-to-site VPN only allows 198.51.100.0/24 and
203.0.113.0/24 to communicate. Meaning that the site-to-site VPN won't
pass traffic from the VoIP PBX.
Here's an important question: Does the VoIP PBX have a default gateway
configured? Or does it /only/ know about the voice VLAN, 192.0.2.0/24?
Because if it doesn't have a default gateway, then (what it knows as)
the mail server will have to be local to the voice subnet.
We already know that the local side of the email solution will have to
be in the 198.51.100.0/24 subnet to bee able to use the VPN.
You could probably fairly easily have a multi-homed host that is in both
the Voice VLAN, 192.0.2.252, and the Local Data VLAN, 198.51.100.252.
That would allow you to run an MTA on the multi-homed host and forward
email at the SMTP application layer.
That would also allow you to use NAT to translate the SMTP traffic as it
passes between the VoIP PBX and the corporate email server.
Let's say that eth0 is in the Voice VLAN, 192.0.2.252, and that eth1 is
in the Local Data VLAN, 198.51.100.252.
# Traffic from the VoIP PBX to the corporate email server.
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -s $PBXIP -d 192.0.2.252 -p tcp
--dport 25 -j DNAT 203.0.113.234
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -s $PBXIP -d 203.0.113.234 -p tcp
--dport 25 -j SNAT 198.51.100.252
# Traffic from the corporate email server to the VoIP PBX.
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -s 203.0.113.234 -d 198.51.100.252
-p tcp --sport 25 -j DNAT $PBXIP
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 203.0.113.234 -d $PBXIP -p tcp
--sport 25 -j SNAT 192.0.2.252
That should get quite close to what you need. That alters both the
source and destination IP addresses as the traffic passes through the
multi-homed host, in each direction.
Aside: I call that "Double NAT" because it NATs two different addresses
on one device (as two distinct operations). But the rest of the world
thinks "Double NAT" is something else. :-/
So it basically comes down to picking a package and then locking it down
so it only forwards mail to that specific IP, and only allows mail to be
received from the phone server.
It would be easier to use the public IP but due to regulations it has to
go over the VPN.
Dan
