firewall: Allow traffic from multicast networks

Message ID 20230425184009.3674-1-stefan.schantl@ipfire.org
State Accepted
Commit b5784fbc3308214852e3029bccca20e0f63f35a8
Headers
Series firewall: Allow traffic from multicast networks |

Commit Message

Stefan Schantl April 25, 2023, 6:40 p.m. UTC
  The multicast network segment 224.0.0.0/4 is used for a lot of
different services provided by the local ISP's. (IPTV etc.)

We have to allow traffic from this networks when using one of
the BOGON blocklists in order to get those ISP services still
accessable.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses/multicast-addresses.xhtml

Fixes 13092.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>
---
 config/firewall/rules.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
  

Comments

Michael Tremer April 26, 2023, 4:47 a.m. UTC | #1
Reviewed-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>

> On 25 Apr 2023, at 19:40, Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> The multicast network segment 224.0.0.0/4 is used for a lot of
> different services provided by the local ISP's. (IPTV etc.)
> 
> We have to allow traffic from this networks when using one of
> the BOGON blocklists in order to get those ISP services still
> accessable.
> 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses/multicast-addresses.xhtml
> 
> Fixes 13092.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>
> ---
> config/firewall/rules.pl | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/config/firewall/rules.pl b/config/firewall/rules.pl
> index 6c08feb86..7edb910e2 100644
> --- a/config/firewall/rules.pl
> +++ b/config/firewall/rules.pl
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ my @PRIVATE_NETWORKS = (
> "172.16.0.0/12",
> "192.168.0.0/16",
> "100.64.0.0/10",
> + "224.0.0.0/4",
> );
> 
> # MARK masks
> -- 
> 2.30.2
>
  

Patch

diff --git a/config/firewall/rules.pl b/config/firewall/rules.pl
index 6c08feb86..7edb910e2 100644
--- a/config/firewall/rules.pl
+++ b/config/firewall/rules.pl
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@  my @PRIVATE_NETWORKS = (
 	"172.16.0.0/12",
 	"192.168.0.0/16",
 	"100.64.0.0/10",
+	"224.0.0.0/4",
 );
 
 # MARK masks