Linux Firewall not block dhcp requests

[Steve Clark]

On 08/14/2012 02:06 PM, Steve Clark wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone tell me how DHCP is seeing packets that according to my firewall log are being dropped?
> Does DHCP read the packets before they get to the firewall like tcpdump does?
>
> Chain fDROPnLOG (1 references)
>    pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out source               destination
>     143 16366 LOG        all  --  *      * 0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           limit: avg 30/min burst 5 LOG flags 0 level 7 prefix `fw (fDROPnLOG) '
>     143 16366 DROP       all  --  *      * 0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
>
> Aug 14 13:55:58 kernel: fw (fDROPnLOG) IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:5c:26:0a:73:b2:6a:08:00 SRC=10.254.207.66 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=24427 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308
>
>
> tcpdump on eth0
> 13:55:58.667982 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 24427, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 328)
>       10.254.207.66.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: [udp sum ok] BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 5c:26:0a:73:b2:6a, length 300, xid 0xc5a1ea3f, Flags [Broadcast] (0x8000)
>             Client-IP 10.254.207.66
>             Client-Ethernet-Address 5c:26:0a:73:b2:6a
>             Vendor-rfc1048 Extensions
>               Magic Cookie 0x63825363
>               DHCP-Message Option 53, length 1: Inform
>               Client-ID Option 61, length 7: ether 5c:26:0a:73:b2:6a
>               Hostname Option 12, length 12: "7pdawson0412"
>               Vendor-Class Option 60, length 8: "MSFT 5.0"
>               Parameter-Request Option 55, length 13:
>                 Subnet-Mask, Domain-Name, Default-Gateway, Domain-Name-Server
>                 Netbios-Name-Server, Netbios-Node, Netbios-Scope, Router-Discovery
>                 Static-Route, Classless-Static-Route, Classless-Static-Route-Microsoft, Vendor-Option
>                 Option 252
> 13:55:58.668418 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 328)
>       10.254.207.65.67 > 10.254.207.66.68: [bad udp cksum ffd6!] BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length 300, xid 0xc5a1ea3f, Flags [Broadcast] (0x8000)
>             Client-IP 10.254.207.66
>             Client-Ethernet-Address 5c:26:0a:73:b2:6a
>             Vendor-rfc1048 Extensions
>               Magic Cookie 0x63825363
>               DHCP-Message Option 53, length 1: ACK
>               Server-ID Option 54, length 4: 10.254.23.1
>               Subnet-Mask Option 1, length 4: 255.255.255.192
>               Default-Gateway Option 3, length 4: 10.254.207.65
>               Domain-Name-Server Option 6, length 8: 172.16.11.180,172.16.11.181
>
>
>
>
Trying to answer my own question - could it be since the destination address is 255.255.255.255 is it hitting
the loopback interface which in my firewall allows everything to everything and the DHCP server
is listening on 0.0.0.0:67.



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Stephen Clark
*NetWolves*
Director of Technology
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Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com
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