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Ken_B_50116
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Oct 24, 2014

Difficulties getting Websense working with LTM

I am running LTM 11.4.1 HF1 on a 4200v active/standby cluster. I am working to deploy HF5 once management OKs it.

Using an evaluation Virtual Edition (VE) unit, I was able to get Websense integrated with LTM OK, using routed config (no SNAT) and transparent proxy using the Websense iApp.

The problem is that when I duplicate this config on my production unit, it doesn't work. There is some routing or other problem. I can see traffic from the test client hitting the LTM, but I see no activity on the LTM websense virtual server or pool.

A capture of traffic on the LTM VE, of the testing client (the one browsing the web), shows this:

22:55:06.856386 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  91, id 7389, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) 10.249.2.106.57043 > 209.53.113.5.http: S, cksum 0xd9d8 (correct), 4072297509:4072297509(0) win 8192 
22:55:06.856449 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  90, id 7389, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) 10.249.2.106.57043 > 209.53.113.5.http: S, cksum 0xd9d8 (correct), 4072297509:4072297509(0) win 8192 
22:55:06.856452 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  89, id 7389, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) 10.249.2.106.57043 > 209.53.113.5.http: S, cksum 0xd9d8 (correct), 4072297509:4072297509(0) win 8192 
22:55:06.856517 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  88, id 7389, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) 10.249.2.106.57043 > 209.53.113.5.http: S, cksum 0xd9d8 (correct), 4072297509:4072297509(0) win 
8192 
22:55:06.856521 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  87, id 7389, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) 10.249.2.106.57043 > 209.53.113.5.http: S, cksum 0xd9d8 (correct), 4072297509:4072297509(0) win 8192 
22:55:06.856584 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  86, id 7389, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) 10.249.2.106.57043 > 209.53.113.5.http: S, cksum 0xd9d8 (correct), 4072297509:4072297509(0) win 8192 
22:55:06.856588 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  85, id 7389, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) 10.249.2.106.57043 > 209.53.113.5.http: S, cksum 0xd9d8 (correct), 4072297509:4072297509(0) win 8192 

We have a fairly complex production config, but the VE test I ran used bare-bones minimal config so I could establish a known-good config to make LTM-Websense work.

Without providing the full config from both the production and VE units, is there any known config or setting that would cause traffic to enter the LTM, but not be picked up by the virtual server. This seems especially relevant because the virtual server listens on all any addresses (0.0.0.0), and all VLANs.

I don't expect to easily fix this problem, but I'm at least looking for clues about where to start. I am also working with my local SE on the issue, but thought I'd ask here too.

  • I was unable to edit and save my post, so here's one change: The above packet capture is on the production LTM where I am having the problem, not the VE (testing) unit.