PATCH: AGAIN, Add creation time to dynamic firewall rules
David Schwartz
davids at webmaster.com
Wed Dec 29 00:20:11 PST 2004
I submitted this email and patch about a month ago. I received a few "this
is a good idea" type replies. I'd like to see it committed to current.
David Schwartz
<davids at webmaster.com>
> FreeBSD/ipfw2 currently keeps the expiration time for
> dynamic firewall
> rules (obviously), but it does not track the creation time. The attached
> patch keeps the creation time and adds a flag to 'ipfw' to show the time
> since creation instead of the time until expiration.
>
> This is useful for two reasons. First, knowing how long a
> connection has
> been around gives you an idea of how stable it is. Second, the packet/byte
> counters are not as meaningful without knowing what time period they
> cover -- with both the counters and the time frame, you can estimate the
> bandwidth consumption of the connection.
>
> The cost is four bytes of memory per dynamic firewall rule.
> This is both
> consumed kernel memory for the dynamic rule table and cost of copying out
> the rules when they're requested. In addition, retrieving the dynamic
> firewall rules requries an extra computation to relativize the time (as is
> done for expiration time now). Even for a large firewall with, say, 10,000
> states, this is still a minimal amount of memory (40Kb).
>
> This patch is tested and is offered under the FreeBSD
> license. I would like
> to see it included in the distribution. The patch is against 5_STABLE, and
> the versions of the various files patched are in the patch headers. The
> patch has been tested.
>
> Note that both copies of ip_fw.h must be patched.
>
> David Schwartz
> <davids at webmaster.com>
>
> --
>
>
> --- ip_fw.h 1.89.2.2 2004/10/03 17:04:40
> +++ ip_fw.h Fri Nov 26 18:51:15 2004
> @@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ struct _ipfw_dyn_rule {
> u_int64_t bcnt; /* byte match counter */
> struct ipfw_flow_id id; /* (masked) flow id */
> u_int32_t expire; /* expire time */
> + u_int32_t created; /* creation time */
> u_int32_t bucket; /* which bucket in hash table */
> u_int32_t state; /* state of this rule (typically a
> * combination of TCP flags)
>
> --- ip_fw2.c 1.54.2.3 2004/09/17 14:49:08
> +++ ip_fw2.c Fri Nov 26 18:56:41 2004
> @@ -1037,6 +1037,7 @@ add_dyn_rule(struct ipfw_flow_id *id, u_
>
> r->id = *id;
> r->expire = time_second + dyn_syn_lifetime;
> + r->created = time_second;
> r->rule = rule;
> r->dyn_type = dyn_type;
> r->pcnt = r->bcnt = 0;
> @@ -3089,6 +3090,9 @@ ipfw_getrules(struct ip_fw_chain *chain,
> dst->expire =
> TIME_LEQ(dst->expire,
> time_second) ?
> 0 : dst->expire -
> time_second ;
> + dst->created =
> + TIME_LEQ(time_second,
> dst->created) ?
> + 0 : time_second -
> dst->created;
> bp += sizeof(ipfw_dyn_rule);
> }
> }
>
> --- ipfw.8 1.150.2.4 2004/11/08 19:07:03
> +++ ipfw.8 Fri Nov 26 18:59:20 2004
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> .Cm add
> .Ar rule
> .Nm
> -.Op Fl acdefnNStT
> +.Op Fl acCdefnNStT
> .Brq Cm list | show
> .Op Ar rule | first-last ...
> .Nm
> @@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ Implies
> When entering or showing rules, print them in compact form,
> i.e., without the optional "ip from any to any" string
> when this does not carry any additional information.
> +.It Fl C
> +When viewing dynamic firewall rules, print the number of
> +seconds since the rule was created rather than the number
> +of seconds until the rule expires.
> .It Fl d
> While listing, show dynamic rules in addition to static ones.
> .It Fl e
>
>
> --- ipfw2.c 1.54.2.3 2004/09/17 14:49:08
> +++ ipfw2.c Fri Nov 26 18:57:04 2004
> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ int
> show_sets, /* display rule sets */
> test_only, /* only check syntax */
> comment_only, /* only print action and comment */
> + show_created, /* show creation time */
> verbose;
>
> #define IP_MASK_ALL 0xffffffff
> @@ -1367,7 +1368,8 @@ show_dyn_ipfw(ipfw_dyn_rule *d, int pcwi
> if (pcwidth>0 || bcwidth>0)
> printf(" %*llu %*llu (%ds)", pcwidth,
> align_uint64(&d->pcnt), bcwidth,
> - align_uint64(&d->bcnt), d->expire);
> + align_uint64(&d->bcnt),
> + show_created ? d->created : d->expire);
> switch (d->dyn_type) {
> case O_LIMIT_PARENT:
> printf(" PARENT %d", d->count);
> @@ -3843,7 +3845,7 @@ ipfw_main(int oldac, char **oldav)
> save_av = av;
>
> optind = optreset = 0;
> - while ((ch = getopt(ac, av, "abcdefhnNqs:STtv")) != -1)
> + while ((ch = getopt(ac, av, "abcCdefhnNqs:STtv")) != -1)
> switch (ch) {
> case 'a':
> do_acct = 1;
> @@ -3906,7 +3908,9 @@ ipfw_main(int oldac, char **oldav)
> case 'v': /* verbose */
> verbose = 1;
> break;
> -
> + case 'C': /* created time */
> + show_created = 1;
> + break;
> default:
> free_args(save_ac, save_av);
> return 1;
>
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