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Abstract : The day to day developments in the field of This paper first discuss about the architecture of
computer network has improved our modes of Netfilter/IPtable and then discuss about the design and
communication, It has not only made our life more, configuration of the firewall.
effective and convenient, but has also introduced a
variety of network threats. Firewall, as a main way to II. Literature Review
prevent network attacks, often used to prevent illegal Baoliang Wang; Kaining Lu; Peng Chang.“Design and
connections and seperate our internal network from Implementation Linux firewall based on the frame of
illegal or insecure connections. In this project, the main Netfilter/IPtable “[1]
content is to build a functioning firewall which is based This paper briefly analyzes the Netfilter/IPtable
on the Linux based operating system, using Netfilter as architecture and principle and working process of state
firewall architecture, and the IPtables as a user space detection technology, then, configure the firewall. At the
module tool last, the firewall experiment verified the effectiveness of
the firewall.
Index Terms : Linux; firewall; state detection;
Netfilter/IPtable Myon That; Kyaw Zaw Ye; Kyaw Myat Thu and Si Thu
Thant Sin.”Development of Firewall Optimization Model
I. Introduction using by Packet filter”[2]
This paper introduces the basic rules for packet filtering
The rapid development of information process with a certain set of rules for better identification
technology has increased our day to day encounter with and what security rules should be implied for each set of
various network security threats. All kinds of network packets.
breakdown issues has been reported in the past few years
which has made us to take network security a serious Bao Zhong; Liang Huanqing.“Design a New Firewall
issue into consideration. Every year, thousands and Based on Netfilter”[3]
millions of computers are used by hackers to launch Based on the firewall of next generation, this paper takes
DDoS attacks which affects thousands of hosts around the the instant messaging software QQ as an analysis object
world. The major number of targets for these types of to propose an improved content filter firewall which could
attacks are small and medium-sized enterprises who lack block QQ login through extracting, analyzing and judging
sufficient security measures installed on their system. The the content of data packet in the network. The technology
main purpose of these paper is to build a full-functioning proposed by this paper can accurately identify the users,
Linux based firewall for small and medium-sized applications and contents according to their behaviors and
enterprises to make their network as safe as possible. characteristics, with the ability of complete safety
Linux, being an open source operating system, protection.
with open source code, high efficiency, speed and having
no copyright related issues provides a suitable Chen Ming, Zhang Xiaoyong. “Analysis DDoS attack and
environment for development of various independent Its Protective Measures.”[4]
security tools. The firewall is designed to run on Linux The paper prosposed the methods of detection of common
based operating system DDoS attacks and provides a detailed analysis on how the
while using Netfilter as the firewall architecture and attacks are carried on by the hackers and the number of
IPtable protective measures which can be implemented to avoid
as the user state module to achieve the function of state the DDoS attacks as much as possible.
detection resisting common DDoS based attacks and log
records of the Linux firewall.
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A. Framework of Netfilter/IPtable
Netfilter is seamless conjuction with TCP/IP protocol
stack and offers various function and operations for
packet filtering, network address translation and port
translation, which provie the functionality required for
directing packets through a network, as well as providing
ability to prohibit packets from reaching sensetive
locations within the computer network. The important
tool module like IPtable is connected to Netfilter
architecture
Netfilter exists in two ways in Linux systems
which are related and unrelated with IPv6 and IPv4.
IPv4 related files are stored in lib/modules/2.6.32-
431.e16.x86_64/kernel/net/IPv4/netfilter, and IPv6 files Figure 1
are stored in lib/modules/2.6.32-
431.e16.x86_64/kernel/IPv6/netfiler. C. Logs of Firewall
They all have no relation with the agreement, so the A log in a system has a collection of operation
Netfilter can work in both IPv4 and IPv6 environment results which are arranged in a chronological order. Each
log file contains details of different system event. It is a
text file which a user can easily read and understand. Log
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plays a vital role in system security as it can help Sometimes you need to temporarily stop using
understand the user where the system has gone wrong and firewall, because the firewall will stop completely when
helps to identify errors using firewall scripts and add ‘stop’ parameter in it.
Netfilter provides the funciton of logging, which The indepth analysis of packets in as shown
used to record network flows . The logging function can below.
be activated by entering -j LOG command in IPtables.
B. Configuring firewall
1. Configuring kernel
As IPtable is divided into user layer management
and kernel module , the initialization involves the
compilation and installation of Linux kernel and user
programs. We are about to use the current latest kernel
version, 4.15.2 to compile the Netfilter.
V. References
[1]Baoliang Wang; Kaining Lu; Peng Chang.“Design and
Implementation Linux firewall based on the frame of
Netfilter/IPtable “