Operation Guide

Scenario

Figure 1 shows the typical networking where a VPN gateway connects to an access router (AR) of Huawei in static routing mode.

Figure 1 Typical networking diagram
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In this scenario, the AR router has only one IP address, and the VPN gateway uses the active-active mode. A VPN connection needs to be created between each of the two active EIPs of the VPN gateway and the IP address of the AR router.

Limitations and Constraints

VPN and AR routers support different authentication and encryption algorithms. When creating connections, ensure that the policy settings at both ends are the same.

Data Plan

**Table 1** Data plan
Category	Item	Example Value for the AR Router	Example Value for the Huawei Cloud Side
VPC	Subnet	172.16.0.0/16	192.168.0.0/24 192.168.1.0/24
VPN gateway	Gateway IP address	1.1.1.1 (IP address of the uplink public network interface GE0/0/8 on the AR router)	Active EIP: 1.1.1.2 Active EIP 2: 2.2.2.2
VPN gateway	Interconnection subnet	-	192.168.2.0/24
VPN connection	Tunnel interface addresses under Connection 1's Configuration	Local tunnel interface address: 169.254.70.2/30 Customer tunnel interface address: 169.254.70.1/30
	Tunnel interface addresses under Connection 2's Configuration	Local tunnel interface address: 169.254.71.2/30 Customer tunnel interface address: 169.254.71.1/30
	IKE policy	IKE version: IKEv2 Authentication algorithm: SHA2-256 Encryption algorithm: AES-128 DH algorithm: group 14 Lifetime (s): 86400 Local ID: IP address Peer ID: IP address
	IPsec policy	Authentication algorithm: SHA2-256 Encryption algorithm: AES-128 PFS: DH group 14 Transfer protocol: ESP Lifetime (s): 3600

Operation Process

Figure 2 shows the process of using the VPN service to enable communication between the data center and VPC.

Figure 2 Operation process
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**Table 2** Operation process description
No.	Configuration Interface	Step	Description
1	Management console	Create a VPN gateway.	Bind two EIPs to the VPN gateway. If you have purchased EIPs, you can directly bind them to the VPN gateway.
2		Create a customer gateway.	Configure the AR router as the customer gateway.
3		Create VPN connections.	Create two VPN connections between the VPN gateway (active EIP and active EIP 2) and the customer gateway. The PSK, IKE policy, and IPsec policy settings of connections must be the same as those of the AR router.
4	Command-line interface (CLI) of the AR router	Configure the AR router.	The local and remote tunnel interface addresses configured on the AR router must be the same as the customer and local tunnel interface addresses configured on the VPN console, respectively. The connection mode, PSK, IKE policy, and IPsec policy settings on the AR router must be same as those of VPN connections configured on the VPN console.
5	-	Verify network connectivity.	Run the ping command to verify network connectivity.