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Special Forums Cybersecurity Firewall Implimentation - Recomendations Post 302090083 by DraconianTimes on Friday 22nd of September 2006 10:26:06 AM
Old 09-22-2006
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Originally Posted by pathological
But yes, it does go from Internet > Modem > Firewall (Hardware) > *.*.2.* Network. we have 2 outs form the firewall, the other one goes into another 2 network switch. (Replication) ... We get blasted with viruses like nobodies business, well we are BETTER now that we have some new firewall policies in place ... statics are more important, that is what my Bosses care about when they sign off on buying this stuff.
Well, OpenBSD is free so that price is always a winner in my book! As for hardware, this is of course dependent on the number of packets / size of the pipe you've got connected. An old pentium box will handle T1 speeds with relative ease. After you're read up on the basics of OpenBSD and pf, check out CARP - this allows you to have redundant OpenBSD firewalls which failover in the event of a problem, and it is very configurable.

From what you described above, it sounds like you're trying to achieve redundancy through a partial mesh... it is worth remembering that the "hardware firewall", modem and link to the ISP are all single points of failure which could make all your other efforts moot. BTW, what is this other hardware firewall? Diagram below shows how you might get OpenBSD/pf/CARP in place... but it also shows your single points of failure!

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Also, what measures are you taking to inspect traffic for malicious types? Are you running some form of mail/web inspection (MAILSweeper/WEBSweeper or maybe squid/postfix with clamav?)

Nick
 

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Firewall mark classifier in tc(8)				       Linux					 Firewall mark classifier in tc(8)

NAME
fw - fwmark traffic control filter SYNOPSIS
tc filter ... fw [ classid CLASSID ] [ action ACTION_SPEC ] DESCRIPTION
the fw filter allows to classify packets based on a previously set fwmark by iptables. If it is identical to the filter's handle, the fil- ter matches. iptables allows to mark single packets with the MARK target, or whole connections using CONNMARK. The benefit of using this filter instead of doing the heavy-lifting with tc itself is that on one hand it might be convenient to keep packet filtering and classifi- cation in one place, possibly having to match a packet just once, and on the other users familiar with iptables but not tc will have a less hard time adding QoS to their setups. OPTIONS
classid CLASSID Push matching packets to the class identified by CLASSID. action ACTION_SPEC Apply an action from the generic actions framework on matching packets. EXAMPLES
Take e.g. the following tc filter statement: tc filter add ... handle 6 fw classid 1:1 will match if the packet's fwmark value is 6. This is a sample iptables statement marking packets coming in on eth0: iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -j MARK --set-mark 6 SEE ALSO
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