HP-UX IPFilter A.03.05.13 Administrator's Guide: HP-UX 11i v3
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX IPFilter Version A.03.05.13 Administrator's Guide
- Legal Notices
- Table of Contents
- Preface: About This Document
- 1 Installing and Configuring HP-UX IPFilter
- Overview of HP-UX IPFilter Installation
- Step 1: Checking HP-UX IPFilter Installation Prerequisites
- Step 2: Loading HP-UX IPFilter Software
- Step 3: Determining the Rules for IPFilter
- Step 4: Adding Rules to the Rules Files
- Step 5: Loading IPFilter and NAT Rules
- Step 6: Verifying the Installation and Configuration
- Kernel Tunable Parameters
- Supported and Unsupported Interfaces
- Troubleshooting HP-UX IPFilter
- 2 HP-UX IPFilter on HP-UX 11i Version 3
- 3 Rules and Keywords
- IPFilter Configuration Files
- Basic Rules Processing
- IPFilter Keywords
- pass and block: Controlling IP Traffic
- in and out: Bidirectional Filtering
- quick: Optimizing IPFilter Rules Processing
- on: Filtering by Network Interfaces
- from and to: Filtering by IP Addresses and Subnets
- log: Tracking Packets on a System
- proto: Controlling Specific Protocols
- opt and ipopts: Filtering on IP Options
- icmp-type: Filtering ICMP Traffic by Type
- port: Filtering on TCP and UDP Ports
- keep state: Protecting TCP, UDP, and ICMP Sessions
- flags: Tight Filtering Based on TCP Header Flags
- keep frags: Letting Fragmented Packets Pass
- with frags: Dropping Fragmented Packets
- with short: Dropping Short Fragments
- return-rst: Responding to Blocked TCP Packets
- return-icmp: Responding to Blocked ICMP Packets
- dup-to: Drop-Safe Logging
- NAT Keywords
- 4 Dynamic Connection Allocation
- 5 Firewall Building Concepts
- Blocking Services by Port Number
- Using Keep State
- Using Keep State with UDP
- Using Keep State with ICMP
- Logging Techniques
- Improving Performance with Rule Groups
- Localhost Filtering
- Using the to
- Creating a Complete Filter by Interface
- Combining IP Address and Network Interface Filtering
- Using Bidirectional Filtering Capabilities
- Using port and proto to Create a Secure Filter
- 6 HP-UX IPFilter Utilities
- 7 HP-UX IPFilter and FTP
- 8 HP-UX IPFilter and RPC
- 9 HP-UX IPFilter and IPSec
- 10 HP-UX IPFilter and Serviceguard
- A HP-UX IPFilter Configuration Examples
- B HP-UX IPFilter Static Linking
- C Performance Guidelines
- Index

Rules and Keywords
NAT Keywords
Chapter 350
bimap: Bidirectional Mapping
The bimap keyword allows IPFilter to map IP addresses bidirectionally.
This can be used when you want the IP address of a particular device on
the NAT-supported system to display as having a different IP address
outside the system. The following rule demonstrates the bimap property:
bimap lan0 192.168.1.1/32 -> 20.20.20.1/32
In the previous example, devices with IP address 192.168.1.1 on the
NAT-supported system display as having an IP address of 20.20.20.1
outside the system.
rdr: Redirecting Packets
The rdr keyword redirects packets coming into an IPFilter NAT system.
The default protocol the rdr keyword uses is TCP.
You can use the rdr keyword to redirect packets from one port to
another. For example, you can redirect traffic destined for the
well-known port 80 to port 8000 to enhance security on your system.
Configure the following rule:
rdr lan0 20.20.20.5/32 port 80 -> 192.168.0.5 port 8000
You can redirect UDP and ICMP packets as well as TCP packets. To
redirect UDP packets, add udp to the rule you configure. For example:
rdr lan0 20.20.20.0/24 port 31337 -> 127.0.0.1 port 31337 udp
You can use NAT redirection and IPFilter filtering together to provide
secure, redirected connections. For example, configure the following NAT
rule:
rdr lan0 20.20.20.5/32 port 80 -> 192.168.0.5 port 8000
Then configure the following IPFilter rule:
pass in on lan0 proto tcp from 172.16.8.2 to 192.168.0.5/32
port = 8000 flags S keep state
When a packet comes in, the NAT rule is processed first. The destination
address and port number are rewritten. Then the packet is passed to the
IPFilter rules for processing and the packet is matched to the pass in
rule.