topic Re: restricting network access on two lan cards in Operating System - HP-UX

restricting network access on two lan cards

Rainer von Bongartz — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 06:04:21 GMT

My hosts uses multiple lan cards with ip addresses in different networks

lan0 : ip a.b.c.d
lan1: ip w..x.y.z

can I restrict different network access to this addresses, i.e. telnet should be allowed to a.b.c.d only while http should only be allowed to w.x.y.z

Regards
Rainer

Re: restricting network access on two lan cards

Michael Tully — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 06:45:42 GMT

Hi Rainer,

You can restrict the traffic from your apache web server to certain IP's from within your apache httpd.conf file. Have a look here for
virtual hosts.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html

If you wish to restrict telnet you will need to use something like ssh and have telnet turned off.

Michael

Re: restricting network access on two lan cards

Scott Van Kalken — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 07:09:55 GMT

you can also look at inetd.sec: try man inetd.sec

inetd.sec(4) inetd.sec(4)

NAME
inetd.sec - optional security file for inetd

DESCRIPTION
When inetd accepts a connection from a remote system, it checks the
address of the host requesting the service against the list of hosts
to be allowed or denied access to the specific service (see
inetd(1M)). The file inetd.sec allows the system administrator to
control which hosts (or networks in general) are allowed to use the
system remotely. This file constitutes an extra layer of security in
addition to the normal checks done by the services. It precedes the
security of the servers; that is, a server is not started by the
Internet daemon unless the host requesting the service is a valid host
according to inetd.sec.

Re: restricting network access on two lan cards

sven verhaegen — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:13:38 GMT

ok , the simplest way is indeed inetd.sec
just add a line like :

telnet allow ip-range

http allow ip-range

will effectively block any incomming request on that process to ip adresses comming from a different ip range , the allow hold an implicit deny any other range will be refused , however if you also want to prevent outgoing telnets (I don't think that is the case) you need a firewall type of applications which closes of the socket for telnet and http for defined ranges in outgoing traffic

Re: restricting network access on two lan cards

W.C. Epperson — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 13:59:21 GMT

I don't think inetd.sec supports "per interface" filtering. httpd.conf virtual address setup is rather arcane, and won't meet your telnet need, as noted.

To have the box self-defend, you'll probably need a package like IPF (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html)
or you might be able to do what you want with TCPWrappers
(ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security)
Depending on what sort of router you have, the easiest thing to do might be to have the router do the filtering.

Re: restricting network access on two lan cards

Rainer von Bongartz — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:12:58 GMT

It's correct that inetd.sec does not support "per interface" filtering, but it works for me because I know what subnets are are connected to this lan card.

So I did in inetd.sec:

telnet deny 10.*
http deny 193.*

This enables me to block telnet requests arriving at lan card 10.43.181.222 and http requests arriving at 193.16.33.253

But I'll have a look at your recomended links.

Regards
Rainer