Re: publications concerning port forwarding

From: vtlists@wyae.de
Date: Fri Apr 13 2007 - 05:58:34 EDT


Thomas W Shinder writes:

> This is WRONG. If you have a true application layer inspection firewall
> like the ISA firewall, a single "port" is required.

Leaving lots of trollbait aside:

Portfiltering SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, HTTPS is a no-brainer. Thus we'll
leave that as home exercise for the student. ;-)

The tricky part of portfiltering MSX is to allow MS-RPC port (tcp/135) and
the according "high ports". This can be done

1.) by using a firewall that has a state engine for MS-RPCs.
    This applies for the newer MS-ISAs, CheckPoint and experimental
    Linux netfilter extensions. Please add if you know more.
    
2.) by allowing tcp/1024-65535 in both directions.
    This is not really recommended as that "hole" is a quite big

3.) by allowing a few selected high ports.
    MSX can be limited to which port range to use. That requires a few
    registry settings:
    
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeSA\Parameters
        Name: TCP/IP port
        Value: REG_DWORD (the port number > 1023)
        
        Name: TCP/IP NSPI port
        Value: REG_DWORD (the port number > 1023)

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem
        Name: TCP/IP port
        Value: REG_DWORD (the port number > 1023)
   
    
    
You may also need to add
    * UDP/TCP 53 (DNS)
    * UDP/TCP 88 (Kerberos authentication)
    * UDP/TCP 389 (LDAP Access)
    * TCP 445 (Microsoft Directory Service)
    * TCP 3268 (LDAP to global catalog servers)

This is for generic access. For newer MSX installations you can try to use
Microsoft's RPC-over-HTTP proxy instead - which will obviously needs HTTP(S)
i.e. tcp/80 (443).

Bye

Volker

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