Having problems with a badly behaving SNMP daemon on a Checkpoint firewall.
One physical interface of the firewall say, qfe0, has three addresses,
qfe0 - 10.10.1.1/24
qfe0:1 - 10.10.2.1/24
qfe0:2 - 10.10.3.1/24
There is a host, 10.10.2.10, that tries to do an SNMP read to the "closest"
address (its default route),
10.10.2.10:64001 -> 10.10.2.1:161
But no response comes back. The SNMP daemon on the firewall reports
no errors. The firewall logs the incoming packet as accepted, there
being a rule to allow this host to query it. Nothing is logged as
being dropped leaving the firewall.
I should note that the SNMP daemon is NOT well behaved. It will respond
to a query using the "nearest" interface to the sender. That is, no
matter what address an SNMP packet is sent to, the source on the response
is the IP of the interface the packet goes out on. It should not matter
in the above case since the two are one in the same.
However, when the host 10.10.2.10 tries to query 10.10.3.1, it DOES work,
10.10.2.10:64002 -> 10.10.3.1:161
10.10.2.1:161 -> 10.10.2.10:64002
Note the source address on the response. This works because we know about
the issue and have a rule that allows UDP with ephemeral port destinations
and 161 source out of the firewall to the hosts allowed to do SNMP gets.
The stateful treatment of UDP by the firewall should not be getting in
the way.
So, a query to 10.10.2.1 doesn't work. A query to 10.10.3.1 does work.
And for completeness, 10.10.1.1 does NOT work either.
To verify that it's not something weird inside of the SNMP daemon,
I can do SNMP gets to all three addresses on the firewall itself. So
things work fine over the loopback. Only when they cross the network...
and the firewall software, do we have problems.
Anyone have any ideas what to do here? Nothing is dropped in the logs
and the results seem inconsistent.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark AT globalstar DOT com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
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