shorewall_code/Shorewall-docs/MAC_Validation.xml
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<title>MAC Verification</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>2004-01-06</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2001-2004</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<para>All traffic from an interface or from a subnet on an interface can be
verified to originate from a defined set of MAC addresses. Furthermore, each
MAC address may be optionally associated with one or more IP addresses.</para>
<important>
<para><emphasis role="bold">MAC addresses are only visible within a
ethernet segment so all MAC addresses used in verification must belong to
devices physically connected to one of the LANs to which your firewall is
connected.</emphasis></para>
</important>
<important>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Your kernel must include MAC match support
(CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC - module name ipt_mac.o).</emphasis></para>
</important>
<section>
<title>Components</title>
<para>There are four components to this facility.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The <emphasis role="bold">maclist</emphasis> interface option in
<ulink url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink>.
When this option is specified, all traffic arriving on the interface
is subjet to MAC verification.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <emphasis role="bold">maclist</emphasis> option in <ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Hosts">/etc/shorewall/hosts</ulink>. When this
option is specified for a subnet, all traffic from that subnet is
subject to MAC verification.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The /etc/shorewall/maclist file. This file is used to associate
MAC addresses with interfaces and to optionally associate IP addresses
with MAC addresses.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <emphasis role="bold">MACLIST_DISPOSITION</emphasis> and
<emphasis role="bold">MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL</emphasis> variables in <ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>.
The MACLIST_DISPOSITION variable has the value DROP, REJECT or ACCEPT
and determines the disposition of connection requests that fail MAC
verification. The MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL variable gives the syslogd level
at which connection requests that fail verification are to be logged.
If set the the empty value (e.g., MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=&#34;&#34;) then
failing connection requests are not logged.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>/etc/shorewall/maclist</title>
<para>The columns in /etc/shorewall/maclist are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>INTERFACE</term>
<listitem>
<para>The name of an ethernet interface on the Shorewall system.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>MAC</term>
<listitem>
<para>The MAC address of a device on the ethernet segment connected
by INTERFACE. It is not necessary to use the Shorewall MAC format in
this column although you may use that format if you so choose.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>IP Address</term>
<listitem>
<para>An optional comma-separated list of IP addresses for the
device whose MAC is listed in the MAC column.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Examples</title>
<example>
<title>Here are my files (look <ulink url="myfiles.htm">here</ulink> for
details about my setup)</title>
<para>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf:</para>
<programlisting>MACLIST_DISPOSITION=REJECT
MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=info</programlisting>
<para>/etc/shorewall/interfaces:</para>
<programlisting>#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
net eth0 206.124.146.255 dhcp,norfc1918,routefilter,blacklist,tcpflags
loc eth2 192.168.1.255 dhcp
dmz eth1 192.168.2.255
WiFi eth3 192.168.3.255 dhcp,maclist
- texas 192.168.9.255</programlisting>
<para>/etc/shorewall/maclist:</para>
<programlisting>#INTERFACE MAC IP ADDRESSES (Optional)
eth3 00:A0:CC:A2:0C:A0 192.168.3.7 #Work Laptop
eth3 00:04:5a:fe:85:b9 192.168.3.250 #WAP11
eth3 00:06:25:56:33:3c 192.168.3.225,192.168.3.8 #WET11
eth3 00:0b:cd:C4:cc:97 192.168.3.8 #TIPPER</programlisting>
<para>As shown above, I use MAC Verification on my wireless zone.</para>
<para><note><para>While marketed as a wireless bridge, the WET11 behaves
like a wireless router with DHCP relay. When forwarding DHCP traffic, it
uses the MAC address of the host (TIPPER) but for other forwarded
traffic it uses it&#39;s own MAC address. Consequently, I list the IP
addresses of both devices in /etc/shorewall/maclist.</para></note></para>
</example>
<example>
<title>Router in Wireless Zone</title>
<para>Suppose now that I add a second wireless segment to my wireless
zone and gateway that segment via a router with MAC address
00:06:43:45:C6:15 and IP address 192.168.3.253. Hosts in the second
segment have IP addresses in the subnet 192.168.4.0/24. I would add the
following entry to my /etc/shorewall/maclist file:</para>
<programlisting>eth3 00:06:43:45:C6:15 192.168.3.253,192.168.4.0/24</programlisting>
<para>This entry accomodates traffic from the router itself
(192.168.3.253) and from the second wireless segment (192.168.4.0/24).
Remember that all traffic being sent to my firewall from the
192.168.4.0/24 segment will be forwarded by the router so that
traffic&#39;s MAC address will be that of the router (00:06:43:45:C6:15)
and not that of the host sending the traffic.</para>
</example>
</section>
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