[email protected] wrote:

>I'm using Shorewall 4.0.6 on a Debian Etch server with kernel 2.6.24.
>The server is running asterisk 1.6 with few IP Phones registered to the
>asterisk, on the internal Interface eth0. The server has indeed a public
>interface eth1 used by asterisk to connect to external SIP providers.
>Now, I simply can't prevent an external IP Phone from registering on my
>asterisk on interface eth1.
>I tried to stop the UDP traffic with this rule (rules file):
>
>DROP  net:XX.XX.XX.XX      fw      udp     1024:65535
>
>Where XX.XX.XX.XX is the public ip addres of the IP Phone. How could it be?
>
>The interface file looks like:
>
>net     eth1            detect          tcpflags,nosmurfs
>loc     eth0            detect          tcpflags,nosmurfs
>
>The policy file looks like:
>
>$FW             all             ACCEPT
>net             $FW             DROP            info
>net             loc             DROP            info
>net             all             DROP            info
>all             all             REJECT          info

Firstly, you only need to block port 5060 to stop SIP (assuming you 
aren't running a non-standard port). Also be aware that SIP can use 
TCP as well as UDP.

But I see that your policies will drop the traffic anyway, so a drop 
rule is redundant.

As Tom has already pointed out, if the phone had a connection active 
before you invoked the firewall then that connection will remain 
open. Also check your rules file for anything that might be 
explicitly permitting the traffic.

Lastly, check that you don't have anything configured on your 
Asterisk setup that might be sending outbound SIP packets to the 
device - that would be enough to create an open connection which 
would permit inbound traffic as well.

Not related to this, but make sure you use good strong passwords for 
your devices. We have to allow external access to our system at work 
to cater for home and mobile users - we regularly get brute force 
attacks, one day we had two separate attacks that overlapped !

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