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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:32:11 +0530
From:      "Kshitij Gunjikar" <kshitijgunjikar@yahoo.com>
To:        <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Filtering packets received through an ipsec tunnel 
Message-ID:  <DJEEIBCKNENADJJIMPLFAEGNCDAA.kshitijgunjikar@yahoo.com>

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Hi Rene,
  I'm wondering why do you want to filter Secure traffic?

The very fact that you have a tunnel to a place means you trust that
network. Hence, why filter?

What are the complex situations you have in mind?

Regards
Kshitij

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Rene de Vries
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 10:32 PM
To: net@freebsd.org
Subject: Filtering packets received through an ipsec tunnel


Hello,

> This message was already posted to hackers@freebsd.org, but with
> limited success. I'm hoping that someone on net@freebsd.org can give me
> some more information.

By experimenting with ipsec and looking at the source of "ip_input.c" a
co-worker and I found the following out.

When a ipsec tunnel packet is received this (protocol 50/51) packet is
passed through ip-filter (& co). After filtering and when it has been
determent that the current host is the destination (tunnel end-point),
this packet is decrypted/verified. The decrypted packet is then pushed
back into the queue that leads to ip_input(...). So far so good....

But once in ip_input(...) the filtering code is skipped and we were
wondering why.

I know that ipsec has some handles to be able to filter on address,
protocol and/or port. But for more complex situations this is not
enough. In these situations it would be nice to be able to use
ip-filter (& co) on traffic from the tunnel (and also for traffic going
into the tunnel).

I was wondering why this is implemented the way it is. Maybe someone on
this list could shed a light on this?

Rene
--
Rene de Vries <rene@tcja.nl>


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