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Re: Bridging inside the CT, snort in-line?! [message #34777 is a reply to message #34752]

Mon, 02 February 2009 14:47

vitorallo
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Registered: January 2009
Location: Bruxelles

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Of course it is not a silly question.
Deploying snort in line means create an IPS and not an IDS. IPSes - intrusion detection and prevention - work by analyzing the traffic and reacting "in line" by applying a response like: block, rewrite and so on. To do that they need to stay in the middle of the traffic flow.

Any good IPS (I work for Internet Security Systems) has two interface. IPS are deployed literally in the middle of the traffic trunk.

internet ----- firewall ---- (portA)IPS(portB)---- inner network

usually IPSes are transparent! there is a bridge/special nic driver that brings the traffic over the two interfaces and blocks it when needed

Snort can work as an IPS, it is actually an IDS. To do that, it needs to stay upon a network bridge. it can grab traffic from libpcap or the iptables QUEUE. For the IPS/Bridge we need the second feature.

Using little bit of fancy ASCII art...

..iptables QUEUE.. <----------- snort
!---------------------!
!----linux bridge---!
+.......................+
A---- TRAFFIC --- B

My aim is to scale security architecture, creating an easy re-distributable template with snort in line to secure the
Virtual Infrastructure!!! THAT WILL BE COOL... of course I
want to share it open.

Unfortunately, to do it I need to bridge inside the CT, I need
linux bridge.ko (bridge utils) active inside and iptables running.

No problem for iptables, snort and all the rest.. but I cannot bridge eth0 and eth1 (virtual interfaces) inside the CT...

Imagine how cool it would be....to have something like

----Host networking----VirtualWorld---IPS transparent---multiple OpenVZ machines Very Happy

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		Bridging inside the CT, snort in-line?! By: vitorallo on Sat, 31 January 2009 11:28
		Re: Bridging inside the CT, snort in-line?! By: maratrus on Mon, 02 February 2009 09:15
		Re: Bridging inside the CT, snort in-line?! By: vitorallo on Mon, 02 February 2009 14:47
		Re: Bridging inside the CT, snort in-line?! By: maratrus on Mon, 02 February 2009 17:32
		Re: Bridging inside the CT (within VPS) By: vitorallo on Mon, 09 February 2009 22:46
		Re: Bridging inside the CT, snort in-line?! By: ivani on Wed, 06 April 2011 13:56

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