Firewall

Welcome to Firewall.

Introduction

IPFW or ipfirewall is an internet-protocol-firewall written for FreeBSD. The ipfw system facility allows filtering, redirecting, and other operations on IP packets travelling through network interfaces. A firewall configuration, or ruleset, is made of a list of rules numbered from 1 to 65535. Packets are passed to the firewall from a number of different places in the protocol stack (depending on the source and destination of the packet, it is possible for the firewall to be invoked multiple times on the same packet). The packet passed to the firewall is compared against each of the rules in the ruleset, in rule-number order (multiple rules with the same number are permitted, in which case they are processed in order of insertion). When a match is found, the action corresponding to the matching rule is performed.

IPFW on GhostBSD

On GhostBSD ipfw is managed by OpenRC.

Attention: Please do not use FreeBSD firewall guidance on the FreeBSD handbook.

IPFW is already setup to default: Set ipfw to default accept
If you run rc-update it shows all running services, ipfw included.

Settings

name="ipfw"
description="Firewall, traffic shaper, packet scheduler, in-kernel NAT"
firewall_coscripts="natd ${firewall_coscripts}"
SYSCTL="/sbin/sysctl"

. /etc/network.subr

depend() {

before net provide firewall keyword -jail -stop -shutdown

}

load_kld(){

kldload -nq $1

}

start_pre()
{

load_kld ipfw if yesno dummynet_enable; then load_kld "dummynet" fi if yesno natd_enable; then load_kld "ipdivert" fi if yesno firewall_nat_enable; then load_kld "ipfw_nat" fi

}

start()
{

local _firewall_type

_firewall_type=$1

ebegin "Starting $name" # set the firewall rules script if none was specified [ -z "${firewall_script}" ] && firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.rules

if [ -r "${firewall_script}" ]; then /bin/sh "${firewall_script}" "${_firewall_type}" elif [ "`ipfw list 65535`" = "65535 deny ip from any to any" ]; then ewarn 'Warning: kernel has firewall functionality, but' \ ' firewall rules are not enabled.' ewarn ' All ip services are disabled.' fi

# Firewall logging # if yesno firewall_logging; then sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1 >/dev/null fi if yesno firewall_logif; then ifconfig ipfw0 create fi eend 0

}

start_post()
{

local _coscript

# Start firewall coscripts # for _coscript in ${firewall_coscripts} ; do if [ -f "${_coscript}" ]; then service ${_coscript} start >/dev/null 2>/dev/null fi done

# Enable the firewall # if ! ${SYSCTL} net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then ewarn "failed to enable IPv4 firewall" fi if afexists inet6; then if ! ${SYSCTL} net.inet6.ip6.fw.enable=1 1>/dev/null 2>&1 then ewarn "failed to enable IPv6 firewall" fi fi

}

reverse_list()
{

_revlist= for _revfile; do _revlist="$_revfile $_revlist" done echo $_revlist

}

stop()
{

local _coscript

# Disable the firewall # ebegin "Stopping $name" ${SYSCTL} net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0 if afexists inet6; then ${SYSCTL} net.inet6.ip6.fw.enable=0 fi

# Stop firewall coscripts # for _coscript in `reverse_list ${firewall_coscripts}` ; do if [ -f "${_coscript}" ]; then service ${_coscript} stop >/dev/null 2>/dev/null fi done eend 0

}

OpenRC manages how ipfw (/etc/init.d/ipfw) configuration is initialized.

The old way defined by TrueOS allows you to define the firewall rules via a /etc/ipfw.conf file. You have to create that file as it does not exist by default.

However, OpenRC (main branch) defines the firewall rules within the /etc/ipfw.conf file itself.

See: ipfw on OpenRC

Some ideas about Firewalls

An interesting article about firewalls you will find on the Gentoo wiki.

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