Snmp and the default speedtouchtm610 firewall, Allowing remote snmp – Technicolor - Thomson 610v User Manual

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4 The SpeedTouch

TM

610 SNMP

Application Note Ed. 01

23

SNMP and the default

SpeedTouch

TM

610

Firewall

Towards the local network, no restrictions apply on behalf of the firewall rules.
However, regarding the WAN, any traffic on destination UDP ports 161 (SNMP) and
162 (SNMP-trap) generated by the SpeedTouch

TM

610 will be counted and logged to

Syslog:

Any traffic arriving from the WAN sourced on UDP port 162 towards the
SpeedTouch

TM

610 is counted and logged as well:

Subsequently the SNMP packets are dropped by the drop-all rules of the firewall:

Allowing remote SNMP

To allow a remote SNMP manager to monitor the SpeedTouch

TM

610 you must add

following firewall rules:

To allow the remote SNMP manager to receive SNMP traps generated by the
SpeedTouch

TM

610, additional firewall rule must be added (next to enabling traps for the

remote manager via a “:snmp trapadd”), assuming the default snmp trap UDP port (162)
is used:

As a result, any WAN traffic coming from or going to the SpeedTouch

TM

610 SNMP

agent, will still be counted and logged to Syslog, but will be accepted.

Note

As for all remote management methods the possibility exist to refine the
firewall rules to restrict access to a certain range of, or a single IP address -
optionally over a specific WAN interface.

:firewall rule create chain=source index=6 prot=udp dstport=snmp

log=yes action=count

:firewall rule create chain=source index=7 prot=udp dstport=snmptrap

log=yes action=count

:firewall rule create chain=sink index=6 prot=udp dstport=snmp

log=yes action=count

:firewall rule create chain=source index=8 action=drop
:firewall rule create chain=sink index=7 action=drop

:firewall rule create chain=source index=7 prot=udp dstport=snmp

action=accept

:firewall rule create chain=sink index=7 prot=udp dstport=snmp

action=accept

:firewall rule create chain=source index=9 prot=udp dstport=snmptrap

action=accept

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