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Special Forums Cybersecurity Firewall Implimentation - Recomendations Post 302090140 by DraconianTimes on Friday 22nd of September 2006 02:57:31 PM
Old 09-22-2006
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Originally Posted by pathological
... What i would LIKE to do is in the rack put 1 or 2 for redundancy, OpenBSD servers in there, to run the firewalls. Now these will be Xeons with like a gig of RAM so i would almost use them for more than just firewall purposes, but that is just a possibility, i am sure we can get a low end server for this purpose ...
I would advise against using your firewall boxes for anything other than firewalling. The more services you run on a box, the more vulnerable it becomes. Your firewalls should be rock solid bastions of defence. As for your rack config, the physical layout of your boxes in the rack isn't really the issue*, it's the logical configuration you should be more concerned with. Don't just focus on your firewalls, take a layered approach to security models and think about all of the traffic, services, users and data that your systems involve.

I can't view the image you posted. I use ImageShack to host images for stuff like this forum, check it out. Post a visio diagram of your network layout (**NO real external IPs/Addresses or other company identifying information!!**) if you can ...

* I won't go into UPS, power & cooling considerations for now.
 

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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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