OPS345 Lab 2

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The current schedule for OPS345 is here: OPS335_Weekly_Schedule

AWS Networking

• VPCs, subnets
• Default dynamic public IP
• Default private network/IP
• Reserving a static public IP under "Elastic IPs", cost of doing that
• VPC dashboard:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html
  • New VPC vpc-ops345 with CIDR block 10.3.45.0/24, no IPv6
  • Subnets: create a new one in vpc-ops345 named subnet-ops345, in us-east-1a, 10.3.45.0/25 (to fit inside the VPC but leave room for other subnets later)
  • Edit subnet, enable auto-assign public IPv4 addresses
  • Internet Gateway: Create ops345-internet-gateway, attach to vpc-ops345
  • Create new Route table ops345-route-table, add route for 0.0.0.0/0 through ops345-internet-gateway. Then add explicit subnet association to subnet-ops345
• Create a new security group "ops345sg" in vpc-ops345 with only the SSH port open.
• Create a new VM named "router", in the new vpc/subnet, with primary IP 10.3.45.10 (first 4 addresses on AWS subnet are not usable), default storage, ops345sg.
  • Follow the instructions in lab 1 to set up your user, except use the subnet-ops345 and ops345sg and assign private ip 10.3.45.10. Also create a new key called ops345-all-aws-machines
  • Note that "Auto-assign Public IP" is enabled by default, but don't change it.
  • Wait till it starts, then go to "Elastic IPs" and associate an elastic IP with router. Call the elastic ip router_public_ip
  • Name the network interface router-nic

Firewalls

• The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet
• AWS Security Groups and iptables

iptables setup

• Install iptables-services, then enable and start the service (same as you did in OPS245).
• iptables fundamentals
• Securing services that need to be publicly accessible

Port forwarding SSH

• Create another VM the same way as "router" but without the elastic IP. Call it www. Set the private IP to 10.3.45.11
  • We won't set it up as a web server in this lab, we just need something to forward SSH requests to.
• firewall:
  • iptables diagram source: https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP1/html/SLES-all/cha-security-firewall.html
  • forward incoming tcp port 2211 packets to port 22 on www

    iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 2211 -j DNAT --to 10.3.45.11:22

  • allow forwarding to www (or just remove default reject rule)

    iptables -D FORWARD 1

  • perform ip masquerading

    iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

  • trubleshooting

    iptables -I FORWARD -j LOG
    tail -f /var/log/messages

  • resulting firewall looks like this:

    [root@router ~]# iptables -L -n
    Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
    target     prot opt source               destination         
    ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
    ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           
    ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           
    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            state NEW tcp dpt:22
    REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
    
    Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
    target     prot opt source               destination         
    
    Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
    target     prot opt source               destination         
    [root@router ~]# 
    [root@router ~]# iptables -L -n -t nat
    Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
    target     prot opt source               destination         
    DNAT       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:2211 to:10.3.45.11:22
    
    Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
    target     prot opt source               destination         
    
    Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
    target     prot opt source               destination         
    
    Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
    target     prot opt source               destination         
    MASQUERADE  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

• kernel:

  vi /etc/sysctl.conf # add to the end: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
  sysctl -p
  cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

• test:

  tcpdump -n -i eth0 port 2211

• aws:
  • allow access to port 2211 in security group
  • disable source/dest check for router in aws console (might not be necessary)
• Save the iptables rules when it looks like they're working.

~. will break out of locked up ssh session

Private security group

• Create a new security group "ops345sgprivate" to be used later for all VMs except the router.
• Add an inbound rule for ssh from ops345sg only