6 Jan
2018
6 Jan
'18
6:36 a.m.
Greetings,
I was working with Dan Cooper last spring to turn my pfSense box into an
ampr gateway. At the time I was trying to learn how IPIP worked AND how
BSD (pfSense) worked. I'm pretty well versed in linux... BSD... not so
much.
At the time I moved to Linux and Lynwood helped me get my head around
how the IPIP tunneling works. After seeing the volume of traffic that
tries to crack into my residential ISP connection (even though it fails)
I've decided to put my ampr gateway into a DMZ. I'm currently in the
process of moving my AMPR gateway into a pfSense DMZ.
I work in a loosely security related position at work and I'm doing this
as a security measure to knock down some of the noise my Linux
gateway/Router/Firewall/AMPRgateway was seeing, mostly from Russia,
China and other places that I didn't research. My new AMPR gateway will
still be on Linux, actually Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi, but the only
traffic it'll ever see is encapsulated traffic and traffic from my
network because all of the other noise will be filtered by the pfSense
box and won't exist in my DMZ.
Out of the box the pfSense user interface doesn't have support for
ipencap or AX25. I did a little bit of research (google) and found an
older post on the pfsense forum about which files to edit to add ipencap
and ax25 to the UI. Also, I just asked on the pfSense subreddit to see
if there are any other places within the pfSense UI to edit which
protocols are available for use.
Is anyone else using this method to NAT forward IPIP traffic to an
internal gateway (in my case using pfSense). I'm looking to find out if
I've missed anything with the port forwarding before I move forward. I
know Brian (N1URO) was working with IPIP tunneling behind a NAT and I
think (THINK) this might work.
So... here's what I've done.
pfSense version is 2.4.2p1. File edits follow...
In file:
/usr/local/www/firewall_nat_edit.php
On line 708, change:
$protocols = "TCP UDP TCP/UDP ICMP ESP AH GRE IPV6 IGMP PIM OSPF";
To:
$protocols = "TCP UDP TCP/UDP ICMP ESP AH GRE IPV6 IGMP PIM OSPF IPENCAP
AX25";
In file:
/usr/local/www/firewall_nat_out_edit.php
On line 510, change:
$protocols = "any TCP UDP TCP/UDP ICMP ESP AH GRE IPV6 IGMP carp pfsync";
To:
$protocols = "any TCP UDP TCP/UDP ICMP ESP AH GRE IPV6 IGMP carp pfsync
IPENCAP AX25";
In file:
/usr/local/www/firewall_rules_edit.php
Insert as line 1315 and 1316:
'ipencap' => 'IPENCAP',
'ax25' => 'AX25',
--
Tom / n2xu / MSgt USAF (Ret) / BSCS, CASP