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An access rule controls outbound communication from an internal network to the outside world. Publishing rules control inbound communication to a single published server and help isolate the internal server from the outside world, using ISA Server as a proxy for this server, listening for requests, filtering them, and passing only safe and validated requests to the protected server. Note that in the ISA Server management console, those two types of rules are mixed. They only have a different wizard for creating them and differ in some of their properties.

Application filters can be associated with both types of rules, so they can filter both outgoing access and incoming published traffic.

In some cases, they are more appropriate for helping a publishing rule to work properly, while in other cases a filter may focus on outgoing access rules only. The filter code is almost identical, so from a developer's perspective, handling access rules and publishing rules requires the same effort and produces almost identical code, with just a few differences in the initialization phase.

Application filters can be developed to support several different scenarios, which I will talk about next. These include protocol enablers, network address translation NAT support, intrusion detection, and content filtering. This is required to allow firewall traversal of such protocols. The main function of these filters is to dynamically configure the ISA Server to allow future secondary connections.

A classic example of such a filter is the built-in FTP app filter that handles all aspects of configuring a firewall to automatically allow a secondary FTP data channel. In a NAT environment, these internal IP addresses are hidden from the outside world and need to be translated to externally visible addresses. An application filter can monitor the traffic and modify the relevant fields within the message to include the correct external addresses according to existing publishing rules.

If you consider the FTP example again, an FTP client sitting behind the firewall may tell an FTP server to connect back to it, passing an address and port information as part of the protocol. The FTP application filter translates this information to an externally visible listening socket, enabling the file transfer to take place. Intrusion detection Application filters can examine traffic going through the firewall and look for known attack signatures.

Content filtering This family of filters is a natural candidate for use by third-party vendors and is what makes ISA Server an ideal content-filtering platform. Application filters can parse high-level application protocols, look for actual data the payload , and apply rules and processing based on the content. In all of these scenarios, the overall structure of the application filter is the same.

It should typically attach itself to each firewall connection and implement the specifications and RFCs relevant to the protocols it represents in order to understand the traffic and apply rules to it. The filter should keep a session state and use it to control the data transfer through the firewall. Application filters follow an "active" data-pumping programming model, where an application filter that registers itself on a connection takes full ownership of the connection and actively pipes the data through from one side to the other.

Application filters can be chained so that the same protocol is handled by more than one filter. When an application filter pumps data through a socket interface, it can be a virtual socket that is connected to the next filter or it can be a real network socket that actually writes and reads data from the network. Figure 2 illustrates this data flow. Now let's drill down into actual implementation issues and answer the questions: what constitutes a full application-filtering solution?

What are the best practices when writing such a solution, and what is expected from a fully featured filter? An application filter will usually comprise at least two separate modules: the filter module and the administration module. The filter module is an in-process COM server that runs inside the firewall service, responding to events and performing the data pumping.

The Administration module is a Microsoft Management Console MMC snap-in that extends the firewall management console and adds a user interface to control the filtering policy. For filters that just need to enable a protocol or apply hardcoded rules, the administration module may not be necessary.

As mentioned before, the filter is an in-process COM server. Figure 3 lists the core interfaces that have to be implemented by an application filter in order to start handling the communication flow. An application filter uses interfaces exposed by the firewall to communicate back with the firewall service and manage the connection.

Figure 4 lists the firewall interfaces that a filter would typically have to use. When a filter is registered and the firewall service is started, the service will call the filter's IFWXFilter::FilterInit method during initialization. This call should be used by the filter as its entry point and as the opportunity to initialize all global scope objects. It also serves as the first opportunity for the filter to tell the firewall which connection events are of interest to it.

In this call, a filter can modify the events it requires for this specific session, create a session object which implements IFWXSessionFilter , and give the firewall a reference to this object.

Next, the firewall service will start sending notifications to the filter through the IFWXSessionFilter::FirewallEventHandler about the specific connection events the filter requested. In response to these events the filter can decide to hook on the actual data transfer and gain control over the data pumping.

Figure 5 shows the implementation of some data filter startup code that is based on the data monitor filter please note that it's a slightly simplified version of the actual sample. It is important to understand that once a filter has attached itself to a connection, the filter has full control over it. The firewall expects the filter to own the data pump and does not actively initiate any data transfer.

Thus, a pure data pump filter with no filtering at all can start a two-way pumping loop very easily. Of course, a transparent filter that does nothing is a waste of good development time, so maybe it's better to actually do something with the data. This is what all the filter logic is used for. The filter has to actually understand all the data it sees, modify the buffers according to its policies, call different firewall interfaces, and so on.

Typically, a filter would be required to implement a state machine that handles the specific protocol and conform to one or more protocol specifications or RFCs. Figure 6 shows the data pump part of the data monitor sample. The data monitor sample acts as a transparent two-way data pump, but also logs all data into a file in a human-readable format that is not shown here, but is implemented by the DumpBuffer method.

Note that the filter always takes a reference to the socket objects in a synchronized way because Detach may be called at any point, so the sockets may be freed in the case where the connection was dropped. You should note two things about the implementation. However, the filter must be aware of and handle threading issues.

This is an asynchronous model, so multiple callback events can be triggered simultaneously on different threads for the same connection and even the order of their arrival is unpredictable. However, even in this case, the filter should always be ready to handle an asynchronous IFWXDataFilter::Detach event that may be called by the firewall in order to signal an aborted connection.

The Detach event can be called at any time, even during a call to IFWXDataFilter::SetSockets, therefore access to the socket objects supplied by the firewall should always be synchronized.

As mentioned earlier, an application filter runs inside the process of the firewall service and fully controls the data pumping for each connection it owns. It isn't uncommon for the firewall service to operate under heavy stress conditions, serving thousands of simultaneous connections, so the performance and robustness of the firewall largely depends on good implementation of the application filters that are installed.

A good application filter should always check for error returns, including low memory situations, and handle failures gracefully. Next SlideShares. You are reading a preview.

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