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NAME

ipf - alter packet filtering lists for IP packet input and output

SYNOPSIS

ipf [-6AdDEGInoPRrsvVyzZ] [-l block | pass | nomatch]
[-T optionlist] [-F i | o | a | s | S] -f filename
[-f filename...] [zonename]

DESCRIPTION

The ipf utility is part of a suite of commands associated with the
Solaris IP Filter feature. See ipfilter(7).

The ipf utility opens the filenames listed (treating a hyphen (-) as
stdin) and parses the file for a set of rules which are to be added
or removed from the packet filter rule set.

If there are no parsing problems, each rule processed by ipf is added
to the kernel's internal lists. Rules are added to the end of the
internal lists, matching the order in which they appear when given to
ipf.

ipf's use is restricted through access to /dev/ipauth, /dev/ipl, and
/dev/ipstate. The default permissions of these files require ipf to
be run as root for all operations.

Enabling Solaris IP Filter Feature

Solaris IP Filter is installed with the Solaris operating system.
However, packet filtering is not enabled by default. Use the
following procedure to activate the Solaris IP Filter feature.

1. Assume a role that includes the IP Filter Management
rights profile (see rbac(7)) or become superuser.

2. Configure system and services' firewall policies. See
svc.ipfd(8) and ipf(5).

3. (Optional) Create a network address translation (NAT)
configuration file. See ipnat(5).

4. (Optional) Create an address pool configuration file. See
ippool(5).

Create an ippool.conf file if you want to refer to a group
of addresses as a single address pool. If you want the
address pool configuration file to be loaded at boot time,
create a file called /etc/ipf/ippool.conf in which to put
the address pool. If you do not want the address pool
configuration file to be loaded at boot time, put the
ippool.conf file in a location other than /etc/ipf and
manually activate the rules.

5. Enable Solaris IP Filter, as follows:

# svcadm enable network/ipfilter

To re-enable packet filtering after it has been temporarily disabled
either reboot the machine or enter the following command:

# svcadm enable network/ipfilter

...which essentially executes the following ipf commands:

1. Enable Solaris IP Filter:

# ipf -E

2. Load ippools:

# ippool -f <ippool configuration file>

See ippool(8).

3. (Optional) Activate packet filtering:

ipf -f <ipf configuration file>

4. (Optional) Activate NAT:

ipnat -f <IPNAT configuration file>

See ipnat(8).

Note -

If you reboot your system, the IPfilter configuration is
automatically activated.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-6

This option is required to parse IPv6 rules and to have them
loaded. Loading of IPv6 rules is subject to change in the future.

-A

Set the list to make changes to the active list (default).

-d

Turn debug mode on. Causes a hex dump of filter rules to be
generated as it processes each one.

-D

Disable the filter (if enabled). Not effective for loadable
kernel versions.

-E

Enable the filter (if disabled). Not effective for loadable
kernel versions.

-F i | o | a

Specifies which filter list to flush. The parameter should either
be i (input), o (output) or a (remove all filter rules). Either a
single letter or an entire word starting with the appropriate
letter can be used. This option can be before or after any other,
with the order on the command line determining that used to
execute options.

-F s | S

To flush entries from the state table, use the -F option in
conjunction with either s (removes state information about any
non-fully established connections) or S (deletes the entire state
table). You can specify only one of these two options. A fully
established connection will show up in ipfstat -s output as 4/4,
with deviations either way indicating the connection is not fully
established.

-f filename

Specifies which files ipf should use to get input from for
modifying the packet filter rule lists.

-G

Make changes to the Global Zone-controlled ipfilter for the zone
given as an argument. See the ZONES section for more information.

-I

Set the list to make changes to the inactive list.

-l pass | block | nomatch

Toggles default logging of packets. Valid arguments to this
option are pass, block and nomatch. When an option is set, any
packet which exits filtering and matches the set category is
logged. This is most useful for causing all packets that do not
match any of the loaded rules to be logged.

-n

Prevents ipf from making any ioctl calls or doing anything which
would alter the currently running kernel.

-o

Force rules by default to be added/deleted to/from the output
list, rather than the (default) input list.

-P

Add rules as temporary entries in the authentication rule table.

-R

Disable both IP address-to-hostname resolution and port number-
to-service name resolution.

-r

Remove matching filter rules rather than add them to the internal
lists.

-s

Swap the currently active filter list to be an alternative list.

-T optionlist

Allows run-time changing of IPFilter kernel variables. To allow
for changing, some variables require IPFilter to be in a disabled
state (-D), others do not. The optionlist parameter is a comma-
separated list of tuning commands. A tuning command is one of the
following:

list

Retrieve a list of all variables in the kernel, their
maximum, minimum, and current value.

single variable name

Retrieve its current value.

variable name with a following assignment

To set a new value.

Examples follow:

# Print out all IPFilter kernel tunable parameters
ipf -T list

# Display the current TCP idle timeout and then set it to 3600
ipf -D -T fr_tcpidletimeout,fr_tcpidletimeout=3600 -E

# Display current values for fr_pass and fr_chksrc, then set
# fr_chksrc to 1.
ipf -T fr_pass,fr_chksrc,fr_chksrc=1

-v

Turn verbose mode on. Displays information relating to rule
processing.

-V

Show version information. This will display the version
information compiled into the ipf binary and retrieve it from the
kernel code (if running or present). If it is present in the
kernel, information about its current state will be displayed;
for example, whether logging is active, default filtering, and so
forth).

-y

Manually resync the in-kernel interface list maintained by IP
Filter with the current interface status list.

-z

For each rule in the input file, reset the statistics for it to
zero and display the statistics prior to them being zeroed.

-Z

Zero global statistics held in the kernel for filtering only.
This does not affect fragment or state statistics.

ZONES

Each non-global zone has two ipfilter instances: the in-zone
ipfilter, which can be controlled from both the zone itself and the
global zone, and the Global Zone-controlled (GZ-controlled) instance,
which can only be controlled from the Global Zone. The non-global
zone is not able to observe or control the GZ-controlled ipfilter.

ipf optionally takes a zone name as an argument, which will change
the ipfilter settings for that zone, rather than the current one. The
zonename option is only available in the Global Zone. Using it in any
other zone will return an error. If the -G option is specified with
this argument, the Global Zone-controlled ipfilter is operated on. If
-G is not specified, the in-zone ipfilter is operated on. Note that
ipf differs from the other ipfilter tools in how the zone name is
specified. It takes the zone name as the last argument, while all of
the other tools take the zone name as an argument to the -G and -z
options.

FILES

/dev/ipauth
/dev/ipl
/dev/ipstate

Links to IP Filter pseudo devices.

/etc/ipf/ipf.conf

Location of ipf startup configuration file. See ipf(5).

/usr/share/ipfilter/examples/

Contains numerous IP Filter examples.

ATTRIBUTES

DIAGNOSTICS

Needs to be run as root for the packet filtering lists to actually be
affected inside the kernel.

May 17, 2020 IPF(8)