Tag: <span>Firewall</span>

It is recommended to implement the separation of management and data/customer traffic in your Juniper devices (e.g. QFX Series Switches, MX Series).  Traffic passing through the management plane should be exclusively for management or administrative access purposes only like SSH, SNMP, NTP and AAA. Here’s the recommended configuration or practices for these management services. Configure Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) -preferably to setup centralized TACACS+ to manage all your devices, implement central network management that can impose security protocol to…

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As mentioned from the previous post, Bogon prefixes or routes should never appear in the Internet routing table. Network Engineers should implement “Best Practices” in their network, that includes filtering of bogons as it maybe used in DDoS attacks or Spams. Refer to https://freenetworktutorials.com/ipv4-and-ipv6-bogon-address-list  for more info. “Martians” bogons may changed occasionally so at least make sure private address mentioned in https://freenetworktutorials.com/ipv4-classful-and-reserved-addresses are filtered so it wont leak out into the Internet. Here is sample steps and configuration. (This is the equivalent configuration…

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As per Cisco website definition: Control Plane Policing (CoPP) is a Cisco IOS-wide feature designed to allow users to manage the flow of traffic handled by the route processor of their network devices. CoPP is designed to prevent unnecessary traffic from overwhelming the route processor that, if left unabated, could affect system performance. Here’s a sample configuration in applying Control Plane Policing  (CoPP) in Cisco IOS Routers Step1: Create necessary ACLs a. Important services,e.g.NTP,SSH,SNMP   ip access-list extended SSH-ACL  permit…

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Here’s sample firewall configuration in protecting the box and its services. ICMP: ICMP message types are essential for network administration and troubleshooting. There are quite a number of ICMP parameters, you can refer to IANA ICMP Parameters for the list or if you want to learn more details about ICMP can refer to RFC792. Here’s the 4 types I consider useful for troubleshooting and need to be allowed.Type 0 — Echo Reply –> response from target to host Type 8 — Echo Request–>…

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