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@@ -15,16 +15,31 @@ We have three networks.
DMZ - 192.168.200.0/24, 2001:0DB8:0:BBBB::0/64
-This specific example is for a router on a stick, but is very easily adapted
-for however many NICs you have.
+**This specific example is for a router on a stick, but is very easily
+adapted for however many NICs you have**:
+
+
+* Internet - 192.168.200.100 - TCP/80
+* Internet - 192.168.200.100 - TCP/443
+* Internet - 192.168.200.100 - TCP/25
+* Internet - 192.168.200.100 - TCP/53
+* VyOS actis as DHCP, DNS forwarder, NAT, router and firewall.
+* 192.168.200.200/2001:0DB8:0:BBBB::200 is an internal/external DNS, web
+ and mail (SMTP/IMAP) server.
+* 192.168.100.10/2001:0DB8:0:AAAA::10 is the administrator's console. It
+ can SSH to VyOS.
+* LAN and DMZ hosts have basic outbound access: Web, FTP, SSH.
+* LAN can access DMZ resources.
+* DMZ cannot access LAN resources.
+* Inbound WAN connect to DMZ host.
.. image:: /_static/images/zone-policy-diagram.png
:width: 80%
:align: center
:alt: Network Topology Diagram
-The VyOS interface is assigned the .1/:1 address of their respective networks.
-WAN is on VLAN 10, LAN on VLAN 20, and DMZ on VLAN 30.
+The VyOS interface is assigned the .1/:1 address of their respective
+networks. WAN is on VLAN 10, LAN on VLAN 20, and DMZ on VLAN 30.
It will look something like this:
@@ -57,31 +72,33 @@ It will look something like this:
Zones Basics
^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Each interface is assigned to a zone. The interface can be physical or virtual
-such as tunnels (VPN, pptp, gre, etc) and are treated exactly the same.
+Each interface is assigned to a zone. The interface can be physical or
+virtual such as tunnels (VPN, PPTP, GRE, etc) and are treated exactly
+the same.
Traffic flows from zone A to zone B. That flow is what I refer to as a
zone-pair-direction. eg. A->B and B->A are two zone-pair-destinations.
Ruleset are created per zone-pair-direction.
-I name rule sets to indicate which zone-pair-direction they represent. eg.
-ZoneA-ZoneB or ZoneB-ZoneA. LAN-DMZ, DMZ-LAN.
+I name rule sets to indicate which zone-pair-direction they represent.
+eg. ZoneA-ZoneB or ZoneB-ZoneA. LAN-DMZ, DMZ-LAN.
-In VyOS, you have to have unique Ruleset names. In the event of overlap, I
-add a "-6" to the end of v6 rulesets. eg. LAN-DMZ, LAN-DMZ-6. This allows for
-each auto-completion and uniqueness.
+In VyOS, you have to have unique Ruleset names. In the event of overlap,
+I add a "-6" to the end of v6 rulesets. eg. LAN-DMZ, LAN-DMZ-6. This
+allows for each auto-completion and uniqueness.
-In this example we have 4 zones. LAN, WAN, DMZ, Local. The local zone is the
-firewall itself.
+In this example we have 4 zones. LAN, WAN, DMZ, Local. The local zone is
+the firewall itself.
-If your computer is on the LAN and you need to SSH into your VyOS box, you
-would need a rule to allow it in the LAN-Local ruleset. If you want to access
-a webpage from your VyOS box, you need a rule to allow it in the Local-LAN
-ruleset.
+If your computer is on the LAN and you need to SSH into your VyOS box,
+you would need a rule to allow it in the LAN-Local ruleset. If you want
+to access a webpage from your VyOS box, you need a rule to allow it in
+the Local-LAN ruleset.
-In rules, it is good to keep them named consistently. As the number of rules
-you have grows, the more consistency you have, the easier your life will be.
+In rules, it is good to keep them named consistently. As the number of
+rules you have grows, the more consistency you have, the easier your
+life will be.
.. code-block:: none
@@ -97,14 +114,16 @@ you have grows, the more consistency you have, the easier your life will be.
Rule 800 - SSH
Rule 900 - IMAPS
-The first two rules are to deal with the idiosyncrasies of VyOS and iptables.
+The first two rules are to deal with the idiosyncrasies of VyOS and
+iptables.
Zones and Rulesets both have a default action statement. When using
-Zone-Policies, the default action is set by the zone-policy statement and is
-represented by rule 10000.
+Zone-Policies, the default action is set by the zone-policy statement
+and is represented by rule 10000.
-It is good practice to log both accepted and denied traffic. It can save you
-significant headaches when trying to troubleshoot a connectivity issue.
+It is good practice to log both accepted and denied traffic. It can save
+you significant headaches when trying to troubleshoot a connectivity
+issue.
To add logging to the default rule, do:
@@ -113,38 +132,40 @@ To add logging to the default rule, do:
set firewall name <ruleSet> enable-default-log
-By default, iptables does not allow traffic for established session to return,
-so you must explicitly allow this. I do this by adding two rules to every
-ruleset. 1 allows established and related state packets through and rule 2
-drops and logs invalid state packets. We place the established/related rule at
-the top because the vast majority of traffic on a network is established and
-the invalid rule to prevent invalid state packets from mistakenly being matched
-against other rules. Having the most matched rule listed first reduces CPU load
-in high volume environments. Note: I have filed a bug to have this added as a
-default action as well.
+By default, iptables does not allow traffic for established session to
+return, so you must explicitly allow this. I do this by adding two rules
+to every ruleset. 1 allows established and related state packets through
+and rule 2 drops and logs invalid state packets. We place the
+established/related rule at the top because the vast majority of traffic
+on a network is established and the invalid rule to prevent invalid
+state packets from mistakenly being matched against other rules. Having
+the most matched rule listed first reduces CPU load in high volume
+environments. Note: I have filed a bug to have this added as a default
+action as well.
''It is important to note, that you do not want to add logging to the
-established state rule as you will be logging both the inbound and outbound
-packets for each session instead of just the initiation of the session.
-Your logs will be massive in a very short period of time.''
+established state rule as you will be logging both the inbound and
+outbound packets for each session instead of just the initiation of the
+session. Your logs will be massive in a very short period of time.''
-In VyOS you must have the interfaces created before you can apply it to the
-zone and the rulesets must be created prior to applying it to a zone-policy.
+In VyOS you must have the interfaces created before you can apply it to
+the zone and the rulesets must be created prior to applying it to a
+zone-policy.
I create/configure the interfaces first. Build out the rulesets for each
-zone-pair-direction which includes at least the three state rules. Then I setup
-the zone-policies.
+zone-pair-direction which includes at least the three state rules. Then
+I setup the zone-policies.
-Zones do not allow for a default action of accept; either drop or reject.
-It is important to remember this because if you apply an interface to a zone
-and commit, any active connections will be dropped. Specifically, if you are
-SSH’d into VyOS and add local or the interface you are connecting through to a
-zone and do not have rulesets in place to allow SSH and established sessions,
-you will not be able to connect.
+Zones do not allow for a default action of accept; either drop or
+reject. It is important to remember this because if you apply an
+interface to a zone and commit, any active connections will be dropped.
+Specifically, if you are SSH’d into VyOS and add local or the interface
+you are connecting through to a zone and do not have rulesets in place
+to allow SSH and established sessions, you will not be able to connect.
-The following are the rules that were created for this example
-(may not be complete), both in IPv4 and IPv6. If there is no IP specified,
-then the source/destination address is not explicit.
+The following are the rules that were created for this example (may not
+be complete), both in IPv4 and IPv6. If there is no IP specified, then
+the source/destination address is not explicit.
.. code-block:: none
@@ -213,10 +234,10 @@ Since we have 4 zones, we need to setup the following rulesets.
Dmz-wan
Dmz-local
-Even if the two zones will never communicate, it is a good idea to create the
-zone-pair-direction rulesets and set enable-default-log. This will allow you to
-log attempts to access the networks. Without it, you will never see the
-connection attempts.
+Even if the two zones will never communicate, it is a good idea to
+create the zone-pair-direction rulesets and set enable-default-log. This
+will allow you to log attempts to access the networks. Without it, you
+will never see the connection attempts.
This is an example of the three base rules.
@@ -325,26 +346,32 @@ Start by setting the interface and default action for each zone.
set zone-policy zone dmz default-action drop
set zone-policy zone dmz interface eth0.30
-In this case, we are setting the v6 ruleset that represents traffic sourced
-from the LAN, destined for the DMZ.
-Because the zone-policy firewall syntax is a little awkward, I keep it straight
-by thinking of it backwards.
+In this case, we are setting the v6 ruleset that represents traffic
+sourced from the LAN, destined for the DMZ. Because the zone-policy
+firewall syntax is a little awkward, I keep it straight by thinking of
+it backwards.
.. code-block:: none
set zone-policy zone dmz from lan firewall ipv6-name lan-dmz-6
-dmz-lan policy is lan-dmz. You can get a rhythm to it when you build out a bunch at one time.
+DMZ-LAN policy is LAN-DMZ. You can get a rhythm to it when you build out
+a bunch at one time.
-In the end, you will end up with something like this config. I took out everything but the Firewall, Interfaces, and zone-policy sections. It is long enough as is.
+In the end, you will end up with something like this config. I took out
+everything but the Firewall, Interfaces, and zone-policy sections. It is
+long enough as is.
IPv6 Tunnel
^^^^^^^^^^^
-If you are using a IPv6 tunnel from HE.net or someone else, the basis is the same except you have two WAN interface. One for v4 and one for v6.
+If you are using a IPv6 tunnel from HE.net or someone else, the basis is
+the same except you have two WAN interface. One for v4 and one for v6.
-You would have 5 zones instead of just 4 and you would configure your v6 ruleset between your tunnel interface and your LAN/DMZ zones instead of to the WAN.
+You would have 5 zones instead of just 4 and you would configure your v6
+ruleset between your tunnel interface and your LAN/DMZ zones instead of
+to the WAN.
LAN, WAN, DMZ, local and TUN (tunnel)
@@ -367,7 +394,8 @@ v6 pairs would be:
Notice, none go to WAN since WAN wouldn't have a v6 address on it.
-You would have to add a couple of rules on your wan-local ruleset to allow protocol 41 in.
+You would have to add a couple of rules on your wan-local ruleset to
+allow protocol 41 in.
Something like: