From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnt Karlsen Subject: Re: Redirect DHCP requests to DMZ? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:21:31 +0200 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20030423182131.67061da5.arnt@c2i.net> References: <3EA66634.2020508@blinkenlichten.de> <1051100353.12295.96.camel@elendil.intranet.cartel-securite.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1051100353.12295.96.camel@elendil.intranet.cartel-securite.net> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On 23 Apr 2003 14:19:13 +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote in message <1051100353.12295.96.camel@elendil.intranet.cartel-securite.net>: > Le mer 23/04/2003 à 12:08, Carsten Maass a écrit : > > Local LAN (192.168.20.*) > > | > > | > > Switch > > | > > | > > Router/Firewall ---- DMZ (192.168.21.*) > > | > > | > > | > > Internet > > > > Everything runs smoothly, except for one thing: I am unable to > > redirect DHCP request from the clients on the local LAN to the DHCP > > server inside the DMZ. > > You'll achieve this setting a DHCP Relay up. Due to what they are, > DHCP packets cannot be routed through different IP networks (mainly > because of destination addresses that are used). > > But this kind of setup is no secure. If someones breaks into your DMZ, > he will be able to have your LAN's configuration, and even tamper it, > acting on DHCP stuff. That's _very bad_. DMZ compromission must not > endanger rest of network security. > ..to put it short: get that dhcp server out of your dmz box and into a lan box (or maybe the firewall). ..the dmz is _only_ for stuff you want me, Saddam, Osama bin Laden, Bill Gates, the scriptkiddies and the FBI to see. Here, I speak with authority; Neither of us needs your dhcp server. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.