[Serusers] Illegal redirection

Jan Janak jan at iptel.org
Tue Nov 15 15:33:05 CET 2005


I was talking about the SIP ALG in the firewall. It did not allow SIP
traffic that was standard compliant through. A checkpoint engineer said
that according to *him* it was not standard use of SIP. The best you can
do is junk Checkpoint and use something else.

  Jan.

On 15-11-2005 13:47, Joao Pereira wrote:
> The firewall says that our SIP implementation doesnt follow one of the 
> RFCs or the packets are malformed.
> To test this, I started SER with the default configuration, that simply 
> accepts registrations and redirects the INVITEs and It still doesnt work.
> The Firewall vendors said that it supported SIP... That´s why I need to 
> know if the problem is from SER or Cisco phones or with the firewall.... 
> I cant change the firewall :(
> What do you mean with having troubles with the vendor? Are you talking 
> of the hard SIP configuration of the firewall 1?
> Thanks
> Jo??o Pereira
> 
> 
> Jan Janak wrote:
> 
> >Checkpoint firewalls contain stateful SIP packet inspection. It will
> >look into the packet and decide whether it should be dropped or allowed
> >based on the contents of the SIP message.
> >
> >I guess you would have to change some settings in the firewall to make
> >the messages go through.
> >
> >I would recommend you to use something else than Checkpoint firewalls.
> >We have had troubles with this vendor.
> >
> > Jan.
> >
> >On 15-11-2005 12:38, Joao Pereira wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hello
> >>I have two Cisco 7940 phones with private addresses (10.0.11.239 and 
> >>10.0.11.140) connected to SER also with private address (10.0.0.135), 
> >>but in another network.
> >>
> >>My SER is with the default configuration.
> >>
> >>Between the networks I have a Checkpoint Firewall-1NG
> >>The Cisco IP phones can register because the REGISTER packets arent 
> >>blocked.
> >>But the INVITEs never reach SER (I checked with ngrep), because the 
> >>Firewall drops them, saying there was an illegal redirection.
> >>
> >>The most strange part, is that, when I try to make a phone call from 
> >>PhoneA(10.0.11.239) to PhoneB(10.0.11.240), the INVITE is dropped before 
> >>reaching SER, and it says "Illegal redirection 10.0.0.135->10.0.11.240". 
> >>How can the firewall know that the INVITE was going to be redirected by 
> >>SER to PhoneB(10.0.11.240) ????
> >>
> >>
> >>my ser.cfg (the default one):
> >>
> >># $Id: ser.cfg,v 1.25 2004/11/30 16:28:24 andrei Exp $
> >># simple quick-start config script
> >>
> >># ----------- global configuration parameters ------------------------
> >>
> >>debug=3         # debug level (cmd line: -dddddddddd)
> >>fork=yes
> >>log_stderror=yes        # (cmd line: -E)
> >>
> >>listen = 10.0.0.135
> >>
> >>/* Uncomment these lines to enter debugging mode
> >>fork=no
> >>log_stderror=yes
> >>*/
> >>
> >>check_via=no    # (cmd. line: -v)
> >>dns=no           # (cmd. line: -r)
> >>rev_dns=no      # (cmd. line: -R)
> >>
> >>
> >># ------------------ module loading ----------------------------------
> >>
> >>loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so"
> >>loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/tm.so"
> >>loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/rr.so"
> >>loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/maxfwd.so"
> >>loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/usrloc.so"
> >>loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so"
> >>loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/textops.so"
> >>
> >>
> >># ----------------- setting module-specific parameters ---------------
> >>
> >># -- usrloc params --
> >>
> >>modparam("usrloc", "db_mode",   0)
> >>
> >># -- rr params --
> >># add value to ;lr param to make some broken UAs happy
> >>modparam("rr", "enable_full_lr", 1)
> >>
> >># -------------------------  request routing logic -------------------
> >>
> >># main routing logic
> >>
> >>route{
> >>     # initial sanity checks -- messages with
> >>      # max_forwards==0, or excessively long requests
> >>      if (!mf_process_maxfwd_header("10")) {
> >>              sl_send_reply("483","Too Many Hops");
> >>              break;
> >>      };
> >>      if (msg:len >=  max_len ) {
> >>              sl_send_reply("513", "Message too big");
> >>              break;
> >>      };
> >>
> >>      # we record-route all messages -- to make sure that
> >>      # subsequent messages will go through our proxy; that's
> >>      # particularly good if upstream and downstream entities
> >>      # use different transport protocol
> >>      if (!method=="REGISTER") record_route();
> >>
> >>      # subsequent messages withing a dialog should take the
> >>      # path determined by record-routing
> >>      if (loose_route()) {
> >>              # mark routing logic in request
> >>              append_hf("P-hint: rr-enforced\r\n");
> >>              route(1);
> >>              break;
> >>      };
> >>
> >>      if (!uri==myself) {
> >>              # mark routing logic in request
> >>              append_hf("P-hint: outbound\r\n");
> >>              route(1);
> >>              break;
> >>      };
> >>
> >>      # if the request is for other domain use UsrLoc
> >>      # (in case, it does not work, use the following command
> >>      # with proper names and addresses in it)
> >>      if (uri==myself) {
> >>
> >>              if (method=="REGISTER") {
> >>
> >>                      save("location");
> >>                      break;
> >>              };
> >>
> >>              lookup("aliases");
> >>              if (!uri==myself) {
> >>                      append_hf("P-hint: outbound alias\r\n");
> >>                      route(1);
> >>                      break;
> >>              };
> >>
> >>              # native SIP destinations are handled using our USRLOC DB
> >>              if (!lookup("location")) {
> >>                      sl_send_reply("404", "Not Found");
> >>                      break;
> >>              };
> >>      };
> >>      append_hf("P-hint: usrloc applied\r\n");
> >>      route(1);
> >>}
> >>
> >>route[1]
> >>{
> >>      # send it out now; use stateful forwarding as it works reliably
> >>      # even for UDP2TCP
> >>      if (!t_relay()) {
> >>              sl_reply_error();
> >>      };
> >>}
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
> > 
> >




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