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Cisco Router and Security Device Manager Firewall Policy Management
Introduction
Security administrators can easily and quickly manage access control lists (ACLs) and packet-inspection rules through a graphical and intuitive
Firewall Wizard and Firewall Policy table available with Cisco® Router and Security Device Manager (SDM).
Cisco IOS Firewall Cisco IOS® Firewall applies access lists and inspection rules to a traffic flow at inbound or outbound router interfaces.
Deployment Scenario Figure 1 shows the deployment of a branch-office Internet firewall without the Cisco SDM Firewall Wizard and Firewall Policy support. The
Cisco IOS Firewall resides in a branch office, with the outside (Ethernet0) interface connected to the corporate network via the Internet, and the
inside (Fast Ethernet0/0) interface connected to the branch-office subnet.
Figure 1 Branch Office Internet Firewall Deployment Scenario
The deployment involves two steps: basic firewall configuration and branch office-specific configuration.
Branch Office Internet Firewall Sample Configuration
Basic Firewall Configuration
The basic firewall configuration is generic to all Cisco IOS firewalls. The Cisco IOS Firewall is configured to protect the branch office by
denying local loopback traffic and broadcast traffic, and by denying spoofing packets on both inside and outside interfaces. The inspection rules
are applied to the outbound packets of the outside interface.
The following are the Cisco IOS Software commands necessary to configure a basic firewall for this deployment scenario.
access-list 101 remark auto generated by SDM firewall configuration
access-list 101 remark SDM_ACL Category=1
access-list 101 permit tcp 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 any eq www
access-list 101 permit tcp 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 any eq ftp
access-list 101 permit tcp 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 any eq telnet
access-list 101 deny ip 172.28.49.96 0.0.0.31 any
access-list 101 permit icmp any host 100.1.1.102 echo-reply
access-list 101 permit icmp any host 100.1.1.102 time-exceeded
access-list 101 permit icmp any host 100.1.1.102 unreachable
access-list 101 deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip host 255.255.255.255 any
access-list 101 deny ip host 0.0.0.0 any
access-list 101 deny ip any any log
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Cisco SDM Firewall Support Cisco SDM allows users to easily configure Cisco IOS Firewall security features. The following steps are used to configure the same
deployment scenario, this time using Cisco SDM as opposed to the Cisco IOS Software CLI.
Basic Firewall Configuration
The Cisco SDM Firewall Wizard can secure the branch-office firewall by using predefined rules to allow private-network users to access the
Internet, and protect the private network from the most common outside attacks. The Firewall Wizard is capable of the following:
• Applying default access rules to inside and outside interfaces
• Applying default inspection rules to outside interface
• Enabling IP Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) on the outside interface
Users invoke the Cisco SDM Firewall Wizard from Wizard mode and launch the Basic Firewall wizard assuming that no demilitarized zone
(DMZ) is required, as in this example. If a DMZ is to be used, use the Advanced Firewall wizard instead. The Firewall Wizard (Figure 2) guides
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