Hello list, https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2003-July/045710.html and following discuss port based filtering and IPsec, AKA http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/1132.html The issue: if you have a host-to-host connection and you try to use iptables to filter, you'll see only ESP packets in the INPUT chain. Those are of no use, as the content (and ports and the like) are all hidden. FreeS/WAN doesn't have this problem, as it uses a separate dummy interface that handles the unencrypted packets. Now there seems a solution that seems a bit of a hack, but the more I think about it, the more it just seems a specific IPsec configuration. Simply use a *tunnel* between the two hosts, and define the subnets to be "tunneled" to be the hosts themselves, like so: add $foo $bar esp 0xf00 -m tunnel -E 3des-cbc $secret1 -A hmac-md5 $secret2; spdadd $foo $bar any -P out ipsec esp/tunnel/$foo-$bar/require; add $bar $foo esp 0xf01 -m tunnel -E 3des-cbc $secret3 -A hmac-md5 $secret4; spdadd $bar $foo any -P in ipsec esp/tunnel/$bar-$foo/require; Now you'll find double logs from each packet: $foo:~# iptables -A INPUT -s $bar -j LOG Jan 14 14:43:08 $foo kernel: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=52:54:05:e5:de:c9:00:02:fd:39:8f:13:08:00 SRC=bar DST=foo LEN=112 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=54 ID=0 DF PROTO=ESP SPI=0x302 Jan 14 14:43:08 $foo kernel: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=52:54:05:e5:de:c9:00:02:fd:39:8f:13:08:00 SRC=bar DST=foo LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=22 DPT=1028 WINDOW=5792 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0 I'm not exactly sure what are drawbacks here (if any). I saw comments by Bruce Schneier http://www.schneier.com/paper-ipsec.html, recommending the eliminiation of transport mode anyway, but I'm not sure if this is still debated. So use at your own risk. Valentijn -- http://www.openoffice.nl/ Open Office - Linux Office Solutions Valentijn Sessink valentyn+sessink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
