Thanks, will look at those. Jim On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Victor Julien <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/31/2011 12:52 PM, Jim Webster wrote: >> netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 30.01.2011 12:07, Jim Webster wrote: >>>> Hi. I am new to the list and also fairly new to iptables and >>>> netfilter. Linux and programming - am familiar with. >>>> Have been tasked to provide a way to move MSMQ (DCERPC?) traffic thru >>>> our firewall. >>>> The firewall is a CentOS iptables based box. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, I do not zet have the customer Wireshark trace showing >>>> the traffic, specificallz where the address (and port) is supposedlz >>>> sent in the pazload. >>>> >>>> A knowledgeable iptables/firewall person on our team has suggested we >>>> require a netfilter helper routine (ala the ftp connection tracking). >>>> >>>> It seems to me however that instead, some tzpe of adaptive firewall >>>> technique is required to do this - opening a new NAT for the IP/port >>>> sent in the pazload and closing it when done. >>>> >>>> If so, can this be done by a simple user app - perhaps a proxy, or >>>> should it be in the loadable kernel modules as the ftp connection >>>> tracker is? >>> >>> Yes, you'll need a connection tracking helper that is able to >>> parse the DCERPC traffic in order to integrate this with netfilter >>> and NAT. I've looked into this a while ago, but due to the >>> complexity of the protocol it is non trivial. >>> >> >> Thanks for replz. Scares me a bit when a member of Netfilter team >> sazs non trivial :-). >> My next step will be to dissect the ftp_conntrack (or other conntrack >> routine) to see how it works. Also, think I must dive into the >> iptables source code to see how to dznamicallz add/remove the NAT >> rules for the protocol. >> >> At first, after reading this >> http://www.faqs.org/docs/gazette/firewalls.html thought I might be >> able to do it with a simple proxy in userspace. >> >> I have much to discover and appreciate anz guidance. Hopefullz, when >> (no option for if) this is successful, it will be made available to >> others. I am half-time so will take me a while. >> >> Thank zou, > > You could have a look at the Suricata IDS or Snort. Both have DCERPC > parsers written in GPL C-code. > > Cheers, > Victor > > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Victor Julien > http://www.inliniac.net/ > PGP: http://www.inliniac.net/victorjulien.asc > --------------------------------------------- > > -- Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html