How to use Azure VPN with Azure NAT Gateway and route all P2S VPN traffic

Oles Samolevsky 20 Reputation points
2024-07-17T17:34:48.57+00:00

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to use Azure VPN with Azure NAT Gateway and route all P2S VPN traffic through a NAT Gateway connected to this VPN?

I connected Azure NAT Gateway to the Virtual Network,

  • in the p2s VPN connection settings I specified to route all traffic through the VPN tunnel, announcing routes 0.0.0.0/1,128.0.0.0/1,
  • changed the connection configuration of the Azure VPN client to version 2   to force tunneling all traffic.

But all this was unsuccessful - traffic could not be routed through the remote gateway and I don't have internet connectivity when using VPN.scheme

Thank you for your help. I spent ages trying to figure out why VPN doesn't work like VPN for all connections.  

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  1. KapilAnanth-MSFT 48,081 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2024-07-18T05:05:57.7+00:00

    @Oles Samolevsky ,

    To answer your question,

    "Is it possible to use Azure VPN with Azure NAT Gateway and route all P2S VPN traffic through a NAT Gateway connected to this VPN?"

    • No
    • This is not possible.

    Summary:

    #Point1

    • See : Forced tunneling
    • Internet connectivity is not provided through the VPN gateway. As a result, all traffic bound for the Internet is dropped.
    • This means, VPN Gateway as a stand alone resource cannot provide you with internet connectivity.

    #Point2

    What you can do is,

    Consider deploying a NVA or Azure Firewall on the VNET and route all traffic to the Firewall from the VPN Gateway.

    • You should advertise additional custom routes 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1 to the P2S Clients.
    • On the GatewaySubnet, attach a UDR with routes 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1 pointing to the nextHop as the NVA's/Azure Fierwall's IP Address
    • Now, this Firewall will provide you with Internet connectivity

    I would suggest you instead consider using Virtual WAN Hub routing intent with Internet Traffic Routing Policy

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    Hope this helps.

    Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance here.

    Thanks,

    Kapil


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