Netband Project - IOS firewall

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Context Based Access Control (CBAC)

• filters TCP and UDP packets based on application-layer protocol session information.
• more flexible than access control lists, that checks packets at the network layer, or at most, the transport layer
• inspects packet sequence numbers in TCP connections
• detects unusually high rates of new connections and issue alert messages.
• creates temporary openings in the return acl to allow traffic back in.

CBAC

Configuration

• Note: The router only keeps track of the configured protocols

 ip inspect audit-trail 
 ip inspect name iosfw ftp
 ip inspect name iosfw tcp
 ip inspect name iosfw udp
 ip inspect name iosfw http
 ip inspect name iosfw https
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
 description OUTSIDE
 ip inspect iosfw out
 ip access-group 101 in
!
 access-list 101 permit udp any eq isakmp any eq isakmp
 access-list 101 permit esp any any
 access-list 101 permit tcp any any eq 22
 access-list 101 deny   ip any any log

Verification

B1rt1#sh ip inspect sessions
Established Sessions
 Session 65E14830 (10.2.1.10:3935)=>(195.137.194.128:80) http SIS_OPEN
 Session 65E15310 (10.2.1.10:3936)=>(195.137.194.128:80) http SIS_OPEN
 Session 65E15058 (10.2.1.10:3937)=>(195.137.194.128:80) http SIS_OPEN
 Session 65E155C8 (10.2.1.10:3934)=>(195.137.194.128:80) http SIS_OPEN

• Syslog audit trail

Apr 27 10:22:06.521: %FW-6-SESS_AUDIT_TRAIL_START: Start http session: initiator (10.2.1.10:3898) -- responder (195.137.194.128:80)
Apr 27 10:22:18.044: %FW-6-SESS_AUDIT_TRAIL: Stop http session: initiator (10.2.1.10:3898) sent 1247 bytes -- responder (195.137.194.128:80) sent 144791 bytes

External Links

Cisco IOS Security Configuration Guide