laptop firewall rules

Eric F Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Mon Oct 31 03:52:34 PST 2005


On Oct 30, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, andy at neu.net wrote:
>
>
>> Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless
>> interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation?  I want to use
>> IPFilter on 6.0 rc1.  I want to let all connections out and keep  
>> state,
>> but block all incoming from the outside.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
>
> That ruleset is easy:
>
> ipfw add check-state
> ipfw add allow tcp from me to any setup keep-state
> ipfw add allow tcp from any to any established
> ipfw add deny from any to me in
>
> This should do the trick.

I forgot a couple of rules here.  I'm assuming you want DNS to  
function, so here's another rule to add, immediately above the last,  
deny, line:

ipfw add allow udp from me to any
ipfw add allow udp from any 53 to me 53

Also, that last line above should read:

ipfw add deny all from any to me in

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Eric F Crist
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