[PATCH 1/2] Protocols should explicitly request the same IPv4 address on reconnect, since they will abort if new addresses are sent by the server.

Daniel Lenski dlenski at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 22:56:58 PST 2017


This behavior is supported by AnyConnect (CONNECT with X-CSTP-Address header)
and by GlobalProtect (POST /ssl-vpn/getconfig.esp with preferred-ip form field).
There does not appear to be any obvious way for Juniper/NC to follow this behavior.

gpst.c already followed this behavior out of necessity, because GlobalProtect
servers tend to provide different IPv4 addresses upon reconnect, after even a brief
disconnection.

This patch reproduces this behavior in cstp.c; I did not make the corresponding
change for IPv6 because I have no way to test it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lenski <dlenski at gmail.com>
---
 cstp.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cstp.c b/cstp.c
index 5477c5c..a22c66e 100644
--- a/cstp.c
+++ b/cstp.c
@@ -262,6 +262,9 @@ static int start_cstp_connection(struct openconnect_info *vpninfo)
 		buf_append(reqbuf, "X-CSTP-MTU: %d\r\n", mtu);
 	buf_append(reqbuf, "X-CSTP-Address-Type: %s\r\n",
 			       vpninfo->disable_ipv6 ? "IPv4" : "IPv6,IPv4");
+       /* Explicitly request the same IPv4 address on reconnect */
+	if (old_addr)
+		buf_append(reqbuf, "X-CSTP-Address: %s\r\n", old_addr);
 	if (!vpninfo->disable_ipv6)
 		buf_append(reqbuf, "X-CSTP-Full-IPv6-Capability: true\r\n");
 #ifdef HAVE_DTLS
-- 
2.7.4




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