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The Book of PF - A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall

OpenBSD's stateful packet filter, PF, offers an amazing feature set and support across the major BSD platforms. But like most firewall software, unlocking PF's full potential takes a good teacher. Peter N.M. Hansteen's PF website and… (More)

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WHAT PF IS
Packet Filter? Firewall? A Few Important Terms Explained
Network Address Translation
Why the Internet Lives on a Few White Lies
Internet Protocol, Version 6 on the Far Horizon
The Temporary Masquerade Solution Called NAT
PF Today
LET’S GET ON WITH IT
Simplest Possible PF Setup on OpenBSD
Simplest Possible PF Setup on FreeBSD
Simplest Possible PF Setup on NetBSD
First Rule Set—A Single, Stand-Alone Machine
Slightly Stricter, with Lists and Macros
Statistics from pfctl
INTO THE REAL WORLD
A Simple Gateway, NAT If You Need It
Gateways and the Pitfalls of in, out, and on
What Is Your Local Network, Anyway?
Setting Up
Testing Your Rule Set
That Sad Old FTP Thing
FTP Through NAT: ftp-proxy
FTP, PF, and Routable Addresses: ftpsesame, pftpx, and ftp-proxy
New-Style FTP: ftp-proxy
Making Your Network Troubleshooting Friendly
Then, Do We Let It All Through?
The Easy Way Out: The Buck Stops Here
Letting ping Through
Helping traceroute
Path MTU Discovery
Tables Make Your Life Easier
WIRELESS NETWORKS MADEEASY
A Little IEEE 802.11 Background
MAC Address Filtering
Picking the Right Hardware for the Task
Setting Up a Simple Wireless Network
The Access Point’s PF Rule Set
If Your Access Point Has Three or More Interfaces
Handling IPsec, VPN Solutions
The Client Side
Guarding Your Wireless Network with authpf
A Basic Authenticating Gateway
Wide Open but Actually Shut
BIGGER OR TRICKIER NETWORKS
When Others Need Something in Your Network: Filtering Services
A Webserver and a Mail Server on the Inside—Routable Addresses
A Degree of Physical Separation: Introducing the DMZ
Getting Load Balancing Right with hoststated
A Webserver and a Mail Server on the Inside—The NAT Version
Back to the Single NATed Network
Filtering on Interface Groups
The Power of Tags
The Bridging Firewall
Basic Bridge Setup on OpenBSD
Basic Bridge Setup on FreeBSD
Basic Bridge Setup on NetBSD
The Bridge Rule Set
Handling Nonroutable Addresses from Elsewhere
TURNING THE TABLES FOR PROACTIVE DEFENSE
Turning Away the Brutes
You May Not Need to Block All of Your Overloaders
Tidying Your Tables with pfctl
The Forerunner: expiretable
Giving Spammers a Hard Time with spamd
Remember, You Are Not Alone: Blacklisting
Greylisting: My Admin Told Me Not to Talk to Strangers
Some Highlights of Day-to-Day spamd Use
Handling Sites That Do Not Play Well with Greylisting
Conclusions from Our spamd Experience
QUEUES, SHAPING, AND REDUNDANCY
Directing Traffic with ALTQ
Basic ALTQ Concepts
Queue Schedulers, aka Queue Disciplines
Setting Up ALTQ
Understanding Priority-Based Queues (priq)
Class-Based Bandwidth Allocation for Small Networks (cbq)
Queuing for Servers in a DMZ
Using ALTQ to Handle Unwanted Traffic
Redundancy and Failover: CARP and pfsync
The Project Specification: A Redundant Pair of Gateways
Setting Up CARP: Kernel Options, sysctl, and ifconfig Commands
Keeping States Synced: Adding pfsync
Putting Together a Rule Set
PF Logs: The Basics
Logging All Packets: log (all)
Logging to Several pflog Interfaces
Logging to syslog, Local or Remote
Tracking Statistics for Each Rule with Labels
Some Additional Tools for PF Logs and Statistics
Keeping an Eye on Things with pftop
Graphing Your Traffic with pfstat
Collecting NetFlow Data with pfflowd
SNMP Tools and PF-Related SNMP MIBs
Remember, Useful Log Data Is the Basis for Effective Debugging
GETTING YOUR SETUP JUST RIGHT
The Things You Can Tweak and What You Probably Should Leave Alone
block-policy
skip
state-policy
timeout
limit
debug
ruleset-optimization
optimization
Cleaning Up Your Traffic: scrub and antispoof
scrub
antispoof
Testing Your Setup
Debugging Your Rule Set
Know Your Network, Stay in Control
RESOURCES
General Networking and BSD Resources on the Internet
Sample Configurations and Related Musings
PF on Other BSD Systems
BSD and Networking Books
Wireless Networking Resources
spamd and Greylisting-Related Resources
Book-Related Web Resources
If You Enjoyed This Book, Buy OpenBSD CDs and Donate!
A NOTE ON HARDWARE SUPPORT
A Case in Point: The Story of a Small Wireless Network
Getting the Right Hardware
Issues Facing Hardware-Support Developers
How to Help the Hardware-Support Efforts
INDEX

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Category:	How-To Guides/Manuals
Rating:	4.7 (23 Ratings)
Upload Date:	03/20/2009
ISBN	978-1-59327-1
Copyright:	Traditional Copyright: All rights reserved
Tags:	Technology Firewall Freebsd pf OpenBSD Technology Firewall Freebsd pf OpenBSD (fewer)

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