topic Zone based firewall - inspect does not work? in Network Security

Zone based firewall - inspect does not work?

Mariusz00001 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 23:27:12 GMT

Zone: Outside

Member Interfaces:

Dialer0

Zone: Inside

Member Interfaces:

Virtual-Template1

Vlan1102

Zone: Guest

Member Interfaces:

Vlan1104

Zone-pair : Inside-to-Guest

Source Zone : Inside

Destination Zone : Guest

Service-policy inspect : Zone-Inside-to-Guest

Class-map : Default-Inspection(match-any)

Action : inspect

Class Map type inspect match-any Default-Inspection (id 10)

Description: Default protocol Inspection class

Match protocol tcp

Match protocol udp

Match protocol icmp

My question is: I cannot make it work the ZBF between my internal zones. As you can see above, I've got Zone-Pair: Inside-to-Guest with 'inspect'. Unfortunately, when I tried to ping for the first time, i received:

%FW-6-DROP_PKT: Dropping icmp session GUEST:0 INSIDE:0 due to policy match failure with ip ident 0

It indicated that the traffic going BACK was blocked... WHY? There is 'inspect'

So I created a new pair: Guest-to-Inside and I changed everything to pass. It DID work. But that is not what I wanted! I wanted INSIDE to access GUEST but Guest should not access Inside. I assumed I could do it with 'inspect' but it did now work.

Let me add that I have an exactly the same zone-pair and classes/policies for Inside-to-Outside and it does work with inspect.

Why can I not 'inspect' between my internal zones? Is it because there is no NAT?

Zone based firewall - inspect does not work?

Julio Carvajal — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:47:47 GMT

Hello,

Well there is a problem with the communication the host are trying to make, the router with the ZBFW enable will perform a deep packet inspection in order to investigate and confirm if a session will need to be allowed or not.

In this particular traffic you are seeing here the inspection was not succesfull ( I mean it is being inspected just that the traffic did not pass the test ( Inspection). That is why with a pass/pass on the right zones it works like a charm.

As you know that this traffic is between internal zones the pass/pass it's okay ( It keeps being secure as this is between internal host, and you can restricted by using an ACL.

Regards,

Julio

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Zone based firewall - inspect does not work?

Mariusz00001 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:09:00 GMT

Do not understand what you are trying to say... zone is a zone (how would a router know it is internal zone? no nat? maybe I am not using nat at all?), why doesn't 'inspect' work between internal zones?

On another board someone suggested it was because I tested it with icmp which is stateless..

Zone based firewall - inspect does not work?

Julio Carvajal — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:10:19 GMT

Hello,

First of all the router can be able to inspect ICMP sessions, he can perform a deep packet inspection and work with the echo and echo-replies.

Now let me explain my self again, I was way too tired yesterday

Traffic between inside to Guest is being inspected but the traffic is not passing the inspection engine ( this could be because of Asymetric routing, invalid payload,etc,etc)

So that being the case that is why the traffic is being allowed with a pass/pass this because the router does not become as specific as with the inspection engine.

Do you see what I mean?

Julio

Zone based firewall - inspect does not work?

Mariusz00001 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:56:41 GMT

Ok... any reason why it was happening???

What is so special about inside-to-guest (does not work) vs inside-to-outside (works great). Rules, policies etc are the same!

Zone based firewall - inspect does not work?

Julio Carvajal — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:16:09 GMT

Hello,

Again this could be because of invalid flags, invalid tcp headers or payloads,etc.

Now in order o check what is happening you should take captures on both devices ( run wireshark ) and check if you see anything that is not normal on the packets.

Does this happens with all the data exchanged between the servers ( UDP,ICMP,TCP)

What is in between the two subnets besides the router?

Julio