SOLVED: ipfw And ping

2011-12-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I have a fairly restrictive firewall but I wanted to open a hole for ping and traceroute - both outbound from a NATed LAN as well as inbound to the boundary FreeBSD machine. The magic sauce turned out to be: ipfw add allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,4,8,11,12 The other insight here

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 10, Message: 25 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:44:53 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 12/04/2011 01:04 AM, Ian Smith wrote: SNIP For one, google 'icmp redirect attack' But isn't that handled by setting:

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 9, Message: 9 On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:35:45 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 12/01/2011 05:45 PM, Jon Radel wrote: On 12/1/11 6:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any It does work but, two

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/04/2011 01:04 AM, Ian Smith wrote: SNIP For one, google 'icmp redirect attack' But isn't that handled by setting: net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 # This is the ICMP rule we generally use: # ipfw add 10 allow icmp from any to any in icmptypes 0,3,4,11,12,14,16,18 Hmmm I

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-02 Thread Jon Radel
On 12/1/11 6:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have a fairly restrictive ipfw setup on a FBSD 8.2-STABLE machine. Pings were not getting through so I added this near the top of the rule set: # # Allow icmp # ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any It does work but, two questions: 1) Is

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-02 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/01/2011 05:45 PM, Jon Radel wrote: On 12/1/11 6:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have a fairly restrictive ipfw setup on a FBSD 8.2-STABLE machine. Pings were not getting through so I added this near the top of the rule set: # # Allow icmp # ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-02 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Tim. Вы писали 2 декабря 2011 г., 1:25:04: TD I have a fairly restrictive ipfw setup on a FBSD 8.2-STABLE machine. TD Pings were not getting through so I added this near the top TD of the rule set: TD# TD# Allow icmp TD# TD${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any

ipfw And ping

2011-12-01 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I have a fairly restrictive ipfw setup on a FBSD 8.2-STABLE machine. Pings were not getting through so I added this near the top of the rule set: # # Allow icmp # ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any It does work but, two questions: 1) Is there a better way? 2) Will this

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
You can rate-limit pings and other icmp with sysctl nodes (sysctl net.inet.icmp ) You can make the rule a little more restrictive: add allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,8,11 if you want to disallow echo requests, omit 8 - the others are essential for most things to work properly or to

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-01 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Dec 1 17:27:19 2011 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:25:04 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ipfw And ping I have a fairly restrictive ipfw setup on a FBSD 8.2-STABLE

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-01 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/01/2011 08:56 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Dec 1 17:27:19 2011 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:25:04 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuktun...@tundraware.com To: FreeBSD Mailing Listfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ipfw And ping I have a fairly restrictive

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-01 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/01/2011 08:56 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: SNIP Similarly, I let the firewall respond to pings adressed to it's _external_ interface, but silently drop anything addressed any further inside my network. (If they can _reach_ my firewall, then a problem, whatever it is, *is* 'my problem' and

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-01 Thread Robert Bonomi
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Subject: Re: ipfw And ping On 12/01/2011 09:12 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From tun...@tundraware.com Thu Dec 1 20:57:55 2011 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:56:03 -0600 Both. Then you want to allow icmp