Core 155 ALG removal: how to see if it's used at all?

NOTABENE:

Without “keeping … unique”,
if all you’ve got is the (external) [IP:PORT] tuple in the adress field of the arriving packet’s IP header
and PORT is ambiguous / used on multiple boxes / (internal) IP destinations,
you don’t have any chance at all to solve this
by setting up classical port forwarding rules in the first place:

  • To which of those boxes would you like to specify to re-direct this package then ? !

K I S S :slight_smile: !

This whole business ( TR-069 [!] ; STUN, ALG, … ) has just one goal:

“Just plug them in - and everything works.” (Your ‘benevolent’ manufacturer / provider)

Yes, everything works - but not only for the (credulous / lazy) user :innocent: :

  • Eyes wide shut against all doors open :weary: .

@ms and @bbitsch are perfectly right:
In that case, you don’t need any (linux or bsd based) open-source firewall at all.

Thanks @pmueller for his article:
Security Announcement: Mitigating NAT Slipstreaming

Link: “Strange Invitation” :wink:

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