ICMP OUTSIDE

[estelamathew]

Hello Dears,

I have permited only port 80 and 443 for our web server in DMZ. My question is after permiting port 80 and 443 everything is denied correct me if i m wrong.???

I m able to ping my public IP address of my outside interface of ASA from internet, why????

when i do icmp deny any outside  then it stops pinging but it stops pinging the directly connected interface of Internet router also that is used sometime for troubleshooting.

My concern is when i have denied everything from outside access-list  except  80 and 443 then why icmp  reply are seen to host on internet.

[mirober2]

Hello,

The difference is in the way the ASA processes to-the-box vs. through-the-box traffic. You are correct that the 'access-list' command includes an implicit deny at the end of it, so all traffic not explicitly permitted will be blocked. However, the access-list only applies to through-the-box traffic. Nothing that you configure in an interface ACL will affect ICMP traffic destined directly to the the ASA.

The 'icmp permit' command is how you create access rules for to-the-box traffic.

In other words, use 'access-list' to restrict traffic between 2 hosts on either side of the firewall. Use 'icmp' (or 'ssh', 'telnet', or 'http') to restrict traffic sent to the firewall itself.

Hope that helps.

-Mike

[estelamathew]

Hello ,

From ur mail what i understand is

Access-list is for the traffic which passess through the firewall.

And to block icmp,telnet ssh to the firewall itself we should these commnds telnet,ssh,icmp.

so my firewall outside interface which is pinging is correct it should ping until and unless i put a command icmpdeny any outside.

Please reply.

Thanks

[mirober2]

Hi,

Yes, you are correct.

-Mike

[estelamathew]

Hello Mike,

Thanks a tons,

I wanted to confirm the above mail points before posting the below statements.

I have a ISA server with 2 NIC 1 is outside and 1 is connected to core switch

ISA is statically natted with public IP for carrying users traffic to browse the internet.

Very Very strange issue when i put icmp deny any outside command on firewall, users are not able to browse the internet  why???????

Thanks