Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-21 Thread Olivier Mascia
Le 14 mai 2014 à 03:37, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.com a écrit : IMO, I agree that it's best to let ICMP flow free on IPv6. ICMP has had a bad reputation for a long time, and it's mostly undeserved in recent times. Jim How should I interpret the code you pointed to? That pfSense do

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-21 Thread Seth Mos
On 21-5-2014 9:11, Olivier Mascia wrote: Le 14 mai 2014 à 03:37, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.com mailto:c...@pfsense.com a écrit : IMO, I agree that it's best to let ICMP flow free on IPv6. ICMP has had a bad reputation for a long time, and it's mostly undeserved in

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-21 Thread Olivier Mascia
Le 21 mai 2014 à 09:23, Seth Mos seth@dds.nl a écrit : The ICMPv6 traffic that's considered required for things to function properly is automatically allowed. Excellent. Thanks! The rules should automatically allow ICMP6 echo, packet to big and neighbor discovery on the link-local

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thursday, May 8, 2014, Olivier Mascia o...@tipgroup.com wrote: Le 8 mai 2014 à 20:05, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org javascript:; a écrit : Code of interest here: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/etc/inc/filter.inc#L2644 IMO, I agree that it's best to let ICMP flow free

[pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Olivier Mascia
Hello, What about RFC 4890 and pfSense configuration of complex ICMPv6 filtering rules? Could it be possible to define a rule where multiple ICMPv6 types might be checked at once? For instance setting up a single rule to allow Type 1, 2, 3, 4, 128 and 129? Instead of needing to create as many

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, May 08, 2014 12:25:54 PM Olivier Mascia wrote: Are there other documentation on ICMPv6 filtering, without dropping essential functionality, in the specific context of pfSense 2.1.x? My personal opinion, we already killed IPv4 by filtering ICMP (and thereby, killing pMTU). Let's

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Olivier Mascia
Le 8 mai 2014 à 12:37, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu a écrit : On Thursday, May 08, 2014 12:25:54 PM Olivier Mascia wrote: Are there other documentation on ICMPv6 filtering, without dropping essential functionality, in the specific context of pfSense 2.1.x? My personal opinion, we

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, May 08, 2014 12:51:05 PM Olivier Mascia wrote: Thanks for this advice. On the WAN interface, I’m currently allowing full ICMPv6 in, albeit only from Global Unicast and Multicast addresses. That is: only from 2000::/3 and ff00::/8. That's alright. Rate limits, at least on

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Brian Candler
On 08/05/2014 11:51, Olivier Mascia wrote: On the WAN interface, I’m currently allowing full ICMPv6 in, albeit only from Global Unicast and Multicast addresses. That is: only from 2000::/3 and ff00::/8. I don't think you'll see any packets with multicast source addresses. It's possible you

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Adam Thompson
On May 8, 2014 12:05:34 PM CDT, Brian Candler b.cand...@pobox.com wrote: On 08/05/2014 11:51, Olivier Mascia wrote: On the WAN interface, I’m currently allowing full ICMPv6 in, albeit only from Global Unicast and Multicast addresses. That is: only from 2000::/3 and ff00::/8. I don't think you'll

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Olivier Mascia
Le 8 mai 2014 à 19:05, Brian Candler b.cand...@pobox.com a écrit : On the WAN interface, I’m currently allowing full ICMPv6 in, albeit only from Global Unicast and Multicast addresses. That is: only from 2000::/3 and ff00::/8. I don't think you'll see any packets with multicast source

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Jim Pingle
On 5/8/2014 1:16 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: Sorry for the late addition... Perhaps this was already covered, but if not: Please don't filter ICMPv6. This is one of the key points every intro-to-v6 class teaches: IPv6 actually *needs* ICMPv6 to function in pretty much every situation. The

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, May 08, 2014 08:05:03 PM Jim Pingle wrote: IMO, I agree that it's best to let ICMP flow free on IPv6. ICMP has had a bad reputation for a long time, and it's mostly undeserved in recent times. +1. Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [pfSense] ICMPv6 filtering recommendations with pfSense?

2014-05-08 Thread Olivier Mascia
Le 8 mai 2014 à 20:05, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org a écrit : Code of interest here: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/etc/inc/filter.inc#L2644 IMO, I agree that it's best to let ICMP flow free on IPv6. ICMP has had a bad reputation for a long time, and it's mostly undeserved in