Nat & ssh problem

spazio

First i deleted the nat and rule on port 22 and then created a new nat on port 2500 that created automaticly the rule.

danswartz

it shouldn't have blocked it then :(

thafener

Spazio,

Did you find a solution for this meanwhile as I have the same problem with NAT over here.
I have solved it once in a absolutely strange way. I have delted all FW and NAT rules, made
a backup of the box and made a fresh install. Then I have created the rules manually again.
Then I have made the rules created by NAT the first ones and it worked for some 10 days
but it has stopped working again. :-[

cheers thafener

spazio

Nop, still have the same problem and it gets worst. I took another machine, did a completly new install from dist cd and the same problem occurs. The default deny rule block everything. I can't even get the packet to go tru once in a while like my other network.

Here is my understanding of the problem, the packet are discarded on a first come first served. It like if the default deny rule is the first, the packet is discarted so the other added rule do not apply.

This is weird, nat is usually pretty much strait forward, is there somebody that does technical incident call service?

danswartz

can you post your /tmp/rules.debug?

thafener

hi danswartz

here's mine as a example… renamed it to rules.txt

Thx thafener

rules.txt

danswartz

In a couple of places, you have rules saying {tcp udp} for a tcp service - get rid of the udp it just confuses things. Also, your post refers to 192.168.0.10, but the rules are referencing 192.168.1.2 - is this an error, or did you change the IPs and not post that? Anyway, this all looks correct - the only thing I can see as a possible issue (that might explain the inbound SSH request not getting through and not being blocked by PF) is snort. I have stopped using snort myself, due to false positives that resulted in good hosts being blacklisted. Could that be it?

thafener

Hi danswartz

Sorry I did not mean to confuse you, it was not the logfile of the threat starter but I have
exactly the same problem, I cannot access 192.168.1.2 in the LAN segment and found no lasting
solution so far.
Well I am not using snort but I will check the rest

Thx thafener

danswartz

Oh, sigh. This is confusing. I hadn't noticed I was dealing with two different posters :( So, thafener, when you try to connect to ssh from outside, is it blocked by the default rule or it just goes nowhere?

thafener

Sorry for all that mess danswartz I do not think that the ssh packages are blocked by the default rule as I can see
them pass in the firewall log but I cannot connect to the ssh host which is possible of course from the LAN side.
It is really confusing that I already "solved" this by making the SSH NAT rule the first one and it has been working
fine for a while but unfortunately the problem occured again.
I have a second PFsense system running in a different location and here it is the same with natting FTP.
I cannot access both boxes from here but I'' get back to this with a little more detailed log output tomorrow morning.

cheers thafener

thafener

Ok here's some output and some screenshots of this phenomenon…first of
all a packet capture of the WAN interface on Port 22...

08:09:08.760774 IP 217.71.243.136.1651 > 83.79.5.14.22: tcp 0
08:09:11.726431 IP 217.71.243.136.1651 > 83.79.5.14.22: tcp 0
08:09:17.742044 IP 217.71.243.136.1651 > 83.79.5.14.22: tcp 0

Please find the screenshots of the NAT rule and the Log viewer attached
below…

fwlog1.jpg_thumb

fwrule1.jpg_thumb

danswartz

Are you absolutely 100% positive there is no trace of the connection on LAN side? Can you run a capture there too?

thafener

I have made a captore in full detail but could not find packets on port 22 for host 192.168.1.2 :-\

danswartz

Can you capture anything at all on the LAN side involving 192.168.1.2 or port 22 (e.g. two captures.)

thafener

I have scanned but only the capture for 192.168.1.2 produced output, sadly not for Port 22.
There is no traffic on port 22 coming through the box though it should according to the setup…

capture_host.txt

danswartz

If you try a connect (which hangs I assume, waiting for the SYN to be replied to), what shows up in the pfsense state table?

thafener

Yes there is something showing up in the state table, I was have used the host I am connecting from as a filter… see screenshot

statetable.jpg_thumb

danswartz

Hmmm, this is odd. Is it possible to do a capture on the ssh server itself? I am not sure I trust the capture on the pfsense.

thafener

Well I used wireshark on the target host running Ubuntu and there were no SSH packages from the Pfsense box to the target host.

danswartz

okay, thanks. boy, is that weird. question: i assume this doesn't work at all? if correct, does a reboot of the pfsense bring it back? also, do you have sshd enabled on the pfsense? if so, does disabling it "fix" this (i am not recommending that as a fix, just trying to isolate things.)