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Firewall design rules
There are two basic rules to firewall design:
■ “What is not explicitly allowed is denied.”
and
■ “What is not explicitly denied is allowed.”
The first rule is far more secure, and is the best approach to firewall design. It is far easier (and more secure)
to allow in or out only certain services and deny anything else. If the other rule is used, you would have to figure
out everything that you want to disallow, now and in the future.
Firewall Logic
Firewall design is a test of logic, and filter rule ordering is critical. If a packet is passed through a series of filter
rules and then the packet matches a rule, the appropriate action is taken. The packet will not pass through the
remainder of the filter rules.
For example, if you had the following filter set...
Allow WWW access;
Allow FTP access;
Allow SMTP access;
Deny all other packets.
and a packet goes through these rules destined for FTP, the packet would pass through the first rule (WWW), go
through the second rule (FTP), and match this rule; the packet is allowed through.
If you had this filter set for example....
Allow WWW access;
Allow FTP access;
Deny FTP access;
Deny all other packets.
TCP Port Service UDP Port Service
20/21 FTP 161 SNMP
23 Telnet 69 TFTP
25 SMTP 387 AURP
80 WWW
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