Building a Transparent Firewall with Linux, Part III
Listing 3. New /etc/config/network File
config 'switch' 'eth0' option 'enable' '1' config 'switch_vlan' 'eth0_0' option 'device' 'eth0' option 'vlan' '0' option 'ports' '0 1 2 3 4 5' config 'interface' 'loopback' option 'ifname' 'lo' option 'proto' 'static' option 'ipaddr' '127.0.0.1' option 'netmask' '255.0.0.0' config 'interface' 'lan' option 'type' 'bridge' option 'ifname' 'eth0.0' option 'proto' 'static' option 'ipaddr' '10.0.0.253' option 'netmask' '255.255.255.0'
Listing 4 shows the seven commands necessary to transform /etc/config/network, as shown in Listing 2, into that shown in Listing 3. Before executing these, however, please read the explanatory text that follows, which will help you avoid the risk of bricking (rendering useless) your broadband router.
Listing 4. uci Commands to Change /etc/config/network
root@OpenWrt:~# uci set network.eth0_0.ports="0 1 2 3 4 5" root@OpenWrt:~# uci delete network.eth0_1 root@OpenWrt:~# uci set network.lan.ipaddr="10.0.0.253" root@OpenWrt:~# uci delete network.wan root@OpenWrt:~# uci show network root@OpenWrt:~# uci commit root@OpenWrt:~# reboot
I'm out of space for this month, so I can't dissect Listing 4, which is hopefully similar enough to the previous uci examples to make sense. I will, however, leave you with two important notes.
First, note the uci show network. This allows you to check your work before committing changes. If any line is wrong, you can re-enter the relevant uci command. To start over, enter the command uci revert network to undo all changes. If you mess things up so badly you can't ssh back in, you can re-flash the firmware image, which among other things will reset the router's IP address back to 192.168.1.1. Checking and rechecking your work before committing, however, is less work and easier on your nerves than re-flashing!
Second, after changing your device's IP address and rebooting, you won't be able to reconnect to your OpenWrt box until you've reconfigured your client system with an IP address compatible with the OpenWrt box's new address. For example, after I reconfigured my Linux laptop's Ethernet interface with the IP address 10.0.0.30 and netmask 255.255.255.0, I was able to ssh back in to my OpenWrt router with the command ssh root@10.0.0.253.
I've covered a lot of ground this month: recompiling OpenWrt for iptables bridging support, enabling SSH, using uci and reconfiguring networking. Next time, I'll show you how to disable the default OpenWrt firewall and create a custom iptables script that should work on any bridging-aware Linux 2.6 system. Until then, be safe!
Resources
Home Page for the OpenWrt Project: www.openwrt.org
OpenWrt's Unified Configuration Interface Documentation: wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci
Chart of Time Zone Strings: nuwiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/openwrtdocs/whiterussian/configuration#timezone
OpenWrt Software Package Information: wiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/openwrtdocs/packages
Mick Bauer (darth.elmo@wiremonkeys.org) is Network Security Architect for one of the US's largest banks. He is the author of the O'Reilly book Linux Server Security, 2nd edition (formerly called Building Secure Servers With Linux), an occasional presenter at information security conferences and composer of the “Network Engineering Polka”.
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Compile time configuration
In the article, you indicate that the relevant binaries are to be found under 'bin/brcm47xx'. Though when I compile using the default configuration (target system: Broadcom BCM947xx/953xx [2.4], target profile: Linksys WRT610N v1) I get the 'bin/brcm-2.4' directory instead.
My guess is you used 'Broadcom BCM947xx/953xx' as target system. Still, I am not sure about the target profile that should be used.