Blocking Unwanted Traffic

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About Blocking Unwanted Traffic

The Ribbon Edge 8000 Series device includes ways to block unwanted traffic at the network interface level. This can be accomplished using 6Wind nc-cli commands or the Edge 8000 webUI.

As an aid to understanding the Edge 8000 interfaces, see the following diagram illustrating the interface assignments for a typical Edge 8300 deployment. The Bridge 4 (br4) interface is the public or WAN interface of the device.

Example of Network Interface Assignments for an Edge 8300

Example of Blocking Common Service Ports on BR4 Interface

The following example illustrates the blocking of a set of services on the BR4 interface using 6Wind configuration commands and the Edge 8000 webUI. The services blocked are:

• port 111 (portmapper)

• port   22 (ssh)

• port 443 (https)

• port 161 (snmp)

• port 830 (netconf-ssh)

• port   80 (http) 

Block Service Ports Using 6Wind Configuration Commands

Prerequisites

• Login access as user sysadm to the Edge 8000 CLI.

Start

1. Log in to the Edge 8000 CLI as user sysadm.
2. Switch to user root.
   # sudo -i
3. Enter the 6WIND cli environment.
   # nc-cli
4. Run the following commands.
   
   Example: Direct-Access Blocking

   nc-cli
   vrf main firewall ipv4 filter input
   rule 50 action drop description Dport22DROP destination port 22 inbound-interface br4 protocol tcp
   rule 51 action drop description Dport443DROP destination port 443 inbound-interface br4 protocol tcp
   rule 52 action drop description Dport161DROP destination port 161 inbound-interface br4 protocol udp
   rule 53 action drop description Dport111DROP destination port 111 inbound-interface br4 protocol tcp
   rule 54 action drop description Dport830DROP destination port 830 inbound-interface br4 protocol tcp
   rule 55 action drop description Dport80DROP destination port 80 inbound-interface br4 protocol tcp
   commit
   exit
   copy running startup
   exit
   
   # iptables -nvL
   Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 88 packets, 6751 bytes)
    pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
      10   600 DROP       tcp  --  br4    *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:22 /* yams-rule-id 50 */ /* Dport22DROP */
       0     0 DROP       tcp  --  br4    *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:443 /* yams-rule-id 51 */ /* Dport443DROP */
       0     0 DROP       udp  --  br4    *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            udp dpt:161 /* yams-rule-id 52 */ /* Dport161DROP */
       0     0 DROP       tcp  --  br4    *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:111 /* yams-rule-id 53 */ /* Dport111DROP */
       0     0 DROP       tcp  --  br4    *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:830 /* yams-rule-id 54 */ /* Dport830DROP */
       0     0 DROP       tcp  --  br4    *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:80 /* yams-rule-id 55 */ /* Dport80DROP */ 

Block Service Ports Using the Edge 8000 webUI

Prerequisites

• Login access as user admin to the Edge 8000 webUI.

Start

1. Log in to the Edge 8000 webUI, and click the Settings tab.
2. Navigate to Routing > Vrf Firewall.
3. Click the "+" in the banner to create a new rule.
4. Complete the fields in the Create Ip Tables window.
   Example for creating a rule to drop any port 22 tcp messages coming inbound to interface Bridge 4 (br4):
    
5. Click Apply.
6. Repeat for each rule.