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sanewall-protection

add extra protections to a definition

protection [reverse] flood-protection-type [requests/period [burst]]

protection [reverse] strong [requests/period [burst]]

protection [reverse] {bad-packets | packet-protection-type }

The protection subcommand sets protection rules on an interface or router.

Flood protections honour the options requests/period and burst. They are used to limit the rate of certain types of traffic.

The default rate Sanewall uses is 100 operations per second with a burst of 50. Run iptables -m limit --help for more information.

The protection type strong will switch on all protections (both packet and flood protections) except all-floods. It has aliases full and all.

The protection type bad-packets will switch on all packet protections but not flood protections.

You can specify multiple protection types by using multiple protection commands or in a single command by enclosing the types in quotes.


Note

On a router, protections are normally set up on inface.

The reverse option will set up the protections on outface. You must use it as the first keyword.

invalid

Drops all incoming invalid packets, as detected INVALID by the connection tracker.

See also SANEWALL_DROP_INVALID in control variables: sanewall-variables(5) which allows setting this function globally.

fragments

Drops all packet fragments.

This rule will probably never match anything since iptables(8) reconstructs all packets automatically before the firewall rules are processed whenever connection tracking is running.

new-tcp-w/o-syn

Drops all TCP packets that initiate a socket but have not got the SYN flag set.

malformed-xmas

Drops all TCP packets that have all TCP flags set.

malformed-null

Drops all TCP packets that have all TCP flags unset.

malformed-bad

Drops all TCP packets that have illegal combinations of TCP flags set.

icmp-floods [requests/period [burst]]

Allows only a certain amount of ICMP echo requests.

syn-floods [requests/period [burst]]

Allows only a certain amount of new TCP connections.

Be careful to not set the rate too low as the rule is applied to all connections regardless of their final result (rejected, dropped, established, etc).

all-floods [requests/period [burst]]

Allows only a certain amount of new connections.

Be careful to not set the rate too low as the rule is applied to all connections regardless of their final result (rejected, dropped, established, etc).

protection strong
protection "invalid new-tcp-w/o-syn"
protection syn-floods 90/sec 40

When using multiple types in a single command, if the quotes are forgotten, incorrect rules will be generated without warning.

When using multiple types in a single command, Sanewall will silently ignore any types that come after a group type (bad-packets, strong and its aliases). Only use group types on their own line.

Sanewall program: sanewall(1)
Sanewall configuration: sanewall.conf(5)
interface definition: sanewall-interface(5)
router definition: sanewall-router(5)

Sanewall Team

Copyright © 2012, 2013 Phil Whineray <phil@sanewall.org>