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<articleinfo>
<title>Dialup firewalling with FreeBSD</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Marc</firstname>
<surname>Silver</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>marcs@draenor.org</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<abstract>
<para>This article documents how to setup a firewall using a PPP
dialup with FreeBSD and IPFW, and specifically with firewalling over
a dialup with a dynamically assigned IP address. This document does
not cover setting up your PPP connection in the first place.</para>
</abstract>
</articleinfo>
<sect1 id="preface">
<title>Preface</title>
<para>Dialup Firewalling with FreeBSD</para>
<para>This document covers the process that is required to setup
firewalling with FreeBSD when an IP address is assigned dynamically
by your ISP. While every effort has been made to make this document
as informative and correct as possible, you are welcome to mail your
comments/suggestions to the <email>marcs@draenor.org</email>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Options</title>
<para>The first thing you'll need to do is recompile your kernel
If you need more information on how to recompile the kernel,
then the best place to start is the <ulink
URL="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html">kernel
configuration section in the Handbook</ulink>. You need to add the
following options into your kernel configuration file:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>options IPFIREWALL</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Enables the kernel's firewall code.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Sends logged packets to the system logger.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>options
IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=<replaceable>100</replaceable></literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Limits the number of times a matching entry is logged. This
prevents your log file from filling up with lots of repetitive
entries.
<replaceable>100</replaceable> is a reasonable number to use, but
you can adjust it based on your requirements.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>options IPDIVERT</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Enables <emphasis>divert</emphasis> sockets, which will be
shown later.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>There are some other OPTIONAL items that you can compile
into the kernel for some added security. These are not required in
order to get firewalling to work, but some more paranoid users may
want to use them.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>This option ignores TCP packets with SYN and FIN. This
prevents tools such as nmap etc from identifying the TCP/IP
stack of the machine, but breaks support for RFC1644
extensions. This is NOT recommended if the machine will be
running a web server.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Don't reboot once you have recompiled the kernel. Hopefully,
we will only need to reboot once to complete the installation of the
firewall.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="rcconf">
<title>Changing <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> to load the
firewall</title>
<para>We now need to make some changes to
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> in order to tell it about the
firewall. Simply add the following lines:</para>
<programlisting>firewall_enable="YES"
firewall_script="/etc/firewall/fwrules"
natd_enable="YES"
natd_interface="tun0"
natd_flags="-dynamic"</programlisting>
<para>For more information on the functions of these statements take
a look at <filename>/etc/defaults/rc.conf</filename> and read
&man.rc.conf.5;</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Disable PPP's network address translation</title>
<para>You may already be using PPP's built in network address
translation (NAT). If that is the case then you will have to disable
it, as these examples use &man.natd.8; to do the same.</para>
<para>If you already have a block of entries to
automatically start PPP, it probably looks like this:</para>
<programlisting>ppp_enable="YES"
ppp_mode="auto"
ppp_nat="YES"
ppp_profile="<replaceable>profile</replaceable>"</programlisting>
<para>If so, remove the <literal>ppp_nat="YES"</literal> line. You will
also need to remove any <literal>nat enable yes</literal> or
<literal>alias enable yes</literal> in
<filename>/etc/ppp/ppp.conf</filename>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="rules">
<title>The ruleset for the firewall</title>
<para>We're nearly done now. All that remains now is to define the
firewall rules and then we can reboot and the firewall should be up and
running. I realize that everyone will want something slightly different
when it comes to their rulebase. What I've tried to do is write a
rulebase that suits most dialup users. You can obviously modify it to
your needs by using the following rules as the foundation for
your own rulebase. First, let's start with the basics of closed
firewalling. What you want to do is deny everything by default and then
only open up for the things you really need. Rules should be in the
order of allow first and then deny. The premise is that you add the
rules for your allows, and then everything else is denied. :)</para>
<para>Now, let's make the dir /etc/firewall. Change into the directory and
edit the file <filename>fwrules</filename> as we specified in
<filename>rc.conf</filename>. Please note that you can change this
filename to anything you wish. This guide just gives an example of a
filename. </para>
<para>Now, let's look at a sample firewall file, that is commented
nicely.</para>
<programlisting># Firewall rules
# Written by Marc Silver (marcs@draenor.org)
# http://draenor.org/ipfw
# Freely distributable
# Define the firewall command (as in /etc/rc.firewall) for easy
# reference. Helps to make it easier to read.
fwcmd="/sbin/ipfw"
# Force a flushing of the current rules before we reload.
$fwcmd -f flush
# Divert all packets through the tunnel interface.
$fwcmd add divert natd all from any to any via tun0
# Allow all data from my network card and localhost. Make sure you
# change your network card (mine was fxp0) before you reboot. :)
$fwcmd add allow ip from any to any via lo0
$fwcmd add allow ip from any to any via fxp0
# Allow all connections that I initiate.
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any out xmit tun0 setup
# Once connections are made, allow them to stay open.
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any via tun0 established
# Everyone on the internet is allowed to connect to the following
# services on the machine. This example shows that people may connect
# to ssh and apache.
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 80 setup
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 22 setup
# This sends a RESET to all ident packets.
$fwcmd add reset log tcp from any to any 113 in recv tun0
# Allow outgoing DNS queries ONLY to the specified servers.
$fwcmd add allow udp from any to <replaceable>x.x.x.x</replaceable> 53 out xmit tun0
# Allow them back in with the answers... :)
$fwcmd add allow udp from <replaceable>x.x.x.x</replaceable> 53 to any in recv tun0
# Allow ICMP (for ping and traceroute to work). You may wish to
# disallow this, but I feel it suits my needs to keep them in.
$fwcmd add 65435 allow icmp from any to any
# Deny all the rest.
$fwcmd add 65435 deny log ip from any to any</programlisting>
<para>You now have a fully functional firewall that will allow on
connections to ports 80 and 22 and will log any other connection
attempts. Now, you should be able to safely reboot and your firewall
should come up fine. If you find this incorrect in anyway or experience
any problems, or have any suggestions to improve this page, please
email me.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Questions</title>
<qandaset>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>Why are you using natd and ipfw when you could be using
the built in ppp-filters?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>I'll have to be honest and say there's no definitive reason
why I use ipfw and natd instead of the built in ppp filters. From
the discussions I've had with people the consensus seems to be
that while ipfw is certainly more powerful and more configurable
than the ppp filters, what it makes up for in functionality it
loses in being easy to customise. One of the reasons I use it is
because I prefer firewalling to be done at a kernel level rather
than by a userland program.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>I get messages like <errorname>limit 100 reached on entry
2800</errorname> and after that I never see more denies in my
logs. Is my firewall still working?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>This merely means that the maximum logging count for the
rule has been reached. The rule itself is still working,
but it will no longer log until such time as you reset the
logging counters. This can be done by simply prefixing the
ipfw command with the <literal>resetlog</literal> option.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>If I'm using private addresses internally, such as in the
192.168.0.0 range, could I add a command like <literal>$fwcmd add
deny all from any to 192.168.0.0:255.255.0.0 via tun0</literal>
to the firewall rules to prevent outside attempts to connect to
internal machines?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>The simple answer is no. The reason for this is that natd is
doing address translation for <emphasis>anything</emphasis> being
diverted through the tun0 device. As far as it's concerned
incoming packets will speak only to the dynamically assigned IP
address and NOT to the internal network. Note though that you can
add a rule like <literal>$fwcmd add deny all from
192.168.0.4:255.255.0.0 to any via tun0</literal> which would
limit a host on your internal network from going out via the
firewall.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>There must be something wrong. I followed your instructions
to the letter and now I am locked out.</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>This tutorial assumes that you are running
<emphasis>userland-ppp</emphasis>, therefore the supplied ruleset
operates on the <devicename>tun0</devicename> interface, which
corresponds to the first connection made with &man.ppp.8; (a.k.a.
<emphasis>user-ppp</emphasis>). Additional connections would use
<devicename>tun1</devicename>, <devicename>tun2</devicename> and so
on.</para>
<para>You should also note that &man.pppd.8; uses the
<devicename>ppp0</devicename> interface instead, so if you start the
connection with &man.pppd.8; you must substitute
<devicename>tun0</devicename> for <devicename>ppp0</devicename>. A
quick way to edit the firewall rules to reflect this change is shown
below. The original ruleset is backed up as
<filename>fwrules_tun0</filename>.</para>
<screen> &prompt.user; <userinput>cd /etc/firewall</userinput>
/etc/firewall&prompt.user; <userinput>su</userinput>
<prompt>Password:</prompt>
/etc/firewall&prompt.root; <userinput>mv fwrules fwrules_tun0</userinput>
/etc/firewall&prompt.root; <userinput>cat fwrules_tun0 | sed s/tun0/ppp0/g > fwrules</userinput>
</screen>
<para>To know whether you are currently using &man.ppp.8; or
&man.pppd.8; you can examine the output of &man.ifconfig.8; once the
connection is up. E.g., for a connection made with &man.pppd.8; you
would see something like this (showing only the relevant lines):</para>
<screen> &prompt.user; <userinput>ifconfig</userinput>
<emphasis>(skipped...)</emphasis>
ppp0: flags=<replaceable>8051&lt;UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1524</replaceable>
inet <replaceable>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</replaceable> --&gt; <replaceable>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</replaceable> netmask <replaceable>0xff000000</replaceable>
<emphasis>(skipped...)</emphasis>
</screen>
<para>On the other hand, for a connection made with &man.ppp.8;
(<emphasis>user-ppp</emphasis>) you should see something similar to
this:</para>
<screen> &prompt.user; <userinput>ifconfig</userinput>
<emphasis>(skipped...)</emphasis>
ppp0: flags=<replaceable>8010&lt;POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500</replaceable>
<emphasis>(skipped...)</emphasis>
tun0: flags=<replaceable>8051&lt;UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1524</replaceable>
<emphasis>(IPv6 stuff skipped...)</emphasis>
inet <replaceable>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</replaceable> --&gt; <replaceable>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</replaceable> netmask <replaceable>0xffffff00</replaceable>
Opened by PID <replaceable>xxxxx</replaceable>
<emphasis>(skipped...)</emphasis></screen>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</sect1>
</article>