[j-nsp] Firewall filter for locally generated packets

Ian MacKinnon ian.mackinnon at lumison.net
Fri Mar 28 04:26:25 EDT 2008


Hi Stefan,

Thanks for that, that is exactly what I was looking for, will give it a try.


Stefan Fouant wrote:
> You could always specify the sourcing interface as opposed to the
> source-address, if for example you want to use a standardized
> configuration across many devices, as in:
>
> term permit_bootp_install {
> from {
> interface lo0.0;
> }
> protocol udp;
> destination-port [ 67 68 ];
> }
> }
> HTHs.
> Stefan Fouant
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Ian MacKinnon
> <ian.mackinnon at lumison.net <mailto:ian.mackinnon at lumison.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I am doing some work with PXE-booting of servers and using bootp helpers
>     to get to the dhcp server.
>
>     All working fine so far.
>
>     However the dhcp response back to the server appears to be coming from
>     the local interface directly, and our standard firewalling is
>     dropping it.
>
>     I can open the firewall to allow all udp 67/68 packets through,but I
>     would rather limit it.
>
>     Now I could add the local ip address to the rule, but have have a
>     standard set of rules we apply to all interfaces, so if there is some
>     way of specifying allow locally generated packets through that would be
>     better.
>
>     eg
>     we have an interface with an ip address like 192.168.0.1/24
>     <http://192.168.0.1/24>
>     In syslog we see
>     Mar 27 16:05:41 my-router-01/my-router-01 /kernel: %FIREWALL-6-FW:
>     .local..0 R udp 192.168.0.1 <http://192.168.0.1/> 255.255.255.255
>     <http://255.255.255.255/> 67 68
>
>
>     ie the interface name is .local..0 and the source is 192.168.0.1
>     <http://192.168.0.1/>
>
>
>     Our firewall rule then looks like :-
>     term permit_bootp_install {
>     from {
>     source-address {
>     192.168.0.1/32 <http://192.168.0.1/32>;
>     }
>     protocol udp;
>     destination-port [ 67 68 ];
>     }
>     }
>
>
>     But rather than use the source-address what can I use for locally
>     generated packets?
>
>     Thanks
>
>
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