Re: [PATCH] location-functions.pl: Recognise XD / LOC_NETWORK_FLAG_DROP

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

> On 14 Oct 2021, at 20:08, Tom Rymes <tom(a)rymes.net> wrote:
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>> On Oct 14, 2021, at 2:28 PM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> 
>>> On 13 Oct 2021, at 17:21, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
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>>> Yes. My imagination of bug #12031 is to have three new checkboxes on the firewall options CGI
>>> to drop all traffic from and to
>>> (a) IP networks not being globally routable ("martians")
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>>> (a) is something we (I) can implement straight away. As soon as this patch has been merged,
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>> (a) will need a lot of exceptions:
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>> * Networks that are locally connected (GREEN, BLUE, ORANGE, RED)
>> * All VPNs (OpenVPN, IPsec, H2N and N2N)
>> * All static routes
>> * Maybe some SNAT/DNAT rules?
>> 
>> These will have to be auto-generated and not bother the admins.
>> 
>> Maybe it would be better to solve this in another way than using iptables.
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> Is “carrier-grade NAT” no longer a thing?

It is, but there is address space that is allocated for that.

Bogons would be address space that isn’t allocated to anyone - of which there probably isn’t much.

> Also, users behind a NAT router/modem/whatever will run into issues, though that’s maybe handled by excluding Locally connected networks as mentioned above?

Yes, that is an absolute necessity.

> 
> Tom
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