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Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Dutch_Arling — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 05:57:52 GMT

R80.10 introduces a new feature called Packet Mode. This is a search mode that searches through a security policy as if a packet is traveling through it. Take a look at this video and see how this can help you in your daily tasks working with R80.10.

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Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Moti — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:11:29 GMT

Awesome video!! thx

Jony Fischbein

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Pedro_Madeira — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:26:35 GMT

Didn't know about this. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

SD_Networking — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:04:47 GMT

How do you export the access-rules after filtering with packet mode ?

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Tomer_Sole — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:57:36 GMT

API tools should assist for this. use the "filter" and "filter-settings" parameters to perform packet mode search. then export the results to desired files.

Check Point - Management API reference

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

kishore_lal — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:08:54 GMT

Could you please help me where exactly filter option exist in API tools, i searched through it, but I could not found it

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Tomer_Sole — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:58:47 GMT

Hi,

the following reference page should show you the command "show access-rulebase": Check Point - Management API reference

it demonstrates running it with packet mode filter:

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Kris_Meldrum — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:49:24 GMT

Hi Tomer,

This link was incredibly helpful but I think I found a bug. When I run packet mode in the console I get the expected result. But when I run through the API it seems like the object ANY has the same uid as several services including http, dns, ftp, icmp, and probably more. So when I do the API call with packet mode, if I have dns, http, https, ftp, etc in the service column it will match ANY service and return the associated rule which is not correct. It works in the console which is the perplexing part. Any ideas??

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

PhoneBoy — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:04:07 GMT

How are you doing the API call?

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Kris_Meldrum — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:07:16 GMT

So far just using either the CLI or with the API interface in the console. No external tools yet...

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

PhoneBoy — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:25:56 GMT

Ok then example CLI command you're using with the different results

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Kris_Meldrum — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:44:59 GMT

SmartDashboard:

So upon closer inspection they're not all the same uid, just very close. But not sure why rule 4 shows up as a possible in CLI vs in UI

You'll also notice at the bottom that it is showing it matched on two rules for the same filter, the other being rule 4. Snip with rule 4 below included so you can see there is no https in the service column

CLI:

> show access-rulebase name network filter "src:10.0.0.1 dst:192.168.137.5 svc:443" filter-settings.search-mode packet

uid: "8a5e96fb-c793-457f-b78f-c667074223a5"

rulebase:

- uid: "14568d6e-eb4d-4f84-9bca-0ebe438c67e6"

type: "access-rule"

domain:

uid: "41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde"

domain-type: "domain"

rule-number: 4

filter-match-details:

- column: "source"

objects:

- "432f5a1a-1eb0-45cd-b860-261c984e377d"

track:

type: "598ead32-aa42-4615-90ed-f51a5928d41d"

per-session: false

per-connection: true

accounting: false

alert: "none"

source:

- "432f5a1a-1eb0-45cd-b860-261c984e377d"

source-negate: false

destination:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

destination-negate: false

service:

- "97aeb3d0-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

- "97aeb406-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

- "97aeb46b-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

- "97aeb470-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

service-negate: false

vpn:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

action: "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c472"

action-settings:

enable-identity-captive-portal: false

content:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

content-negate: false

content-direction: "any"

time:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

custom-fields:

field-1: ""

field-2: ""

field-3: ""

meta-info:

lock: "unlocked"

validation-state: "ok"

last-modify-time:

posix: 1533138381161

iso-8601: "2018-08-01T08:46-0700"

last-modifier: "admin"

creation-time:

posix: 1533138052702

iso-8601: "2018-08-01T08:40-0700"

creator: "admin"

comments: ""

enabled: true

install-on:

- "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c476"

- uid: "0f62cb69-736a-4559-a6d0-a54048abb3eb"

type: "access-rule"

domain:

uid: "41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde"

domain-type: "domain"

rule-number: 5

filter-match-details:

- column: "source"

objects:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

track:

type: "598ead32-aa42-4615-90ed-f51a5928d41d"

per-session: false

per-connection: true

accounting: false

alert: "none"

source:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

source-negate: false

destination:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

destination-negate: false

service:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

service-negate: false

vpn:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

action: "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c473"

action-settings: {}

content:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

content-negate: false

content-direction: "any"

time:

- "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

custom-fields:

field-1: ""

field-2: ""

field-3: ""

meta-info:

lock: "unlocked"

validation-state: "ok"

last-modify-time:

posix: 1533138382512

iso-8601: "2018-08-01T08:46-0700"

last-modifier: "admin"

creation-time:

posix: 1513308839753

iso-8601: "2017-12-14T19:33-0800"

creator: "System"

comments: ""

enabled: true

install-on:

- "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c476"

objects-dictionary:

- uid: "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c472"

type: "RulebaseAction"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

- uid: "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

type: "CpmiAnyObject"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

- uid: "97aeb46b-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

type: "service-group"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

- uid: "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c473"

type: "RulebaseAction"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

- uid: "97aeb406-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

type: "service-icmp"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

- uid: "97aeb3d0-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

type: "service-tcp"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

port: "21"

- uid: "598ead32-aa42-4615-90ed-f51a5928d41d"

type: "Track"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

- uid: "432f5a1a-1eb0-45cd-b860-261c984e377d"

type: "network"

domain:

uid: "41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde"

domain-type: "domain"

subnet4: "10.0.0.0"

mask-length4: 8

subnet-mask: "255.0.0.0"

- uid: "97aeb470-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30"

type: "service-group"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

- uid: "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c476"

type: "Global"

domain:

uid: "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef"

domain-type: "data domain"

from: 1

to: 2

total: 2

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Robert_Decker — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 08:41:05 GMT

SmartConsole UI search uses by default an "AND" operator between the operands, while API uses an "OR" operator.

Therefore the mismatch between the results.

If you run API command with "AND" between the operands, you will get the same results.

We will fix the API documentation to state this fact clearly.

Robert.

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Kris_Meldrum — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:05:06 GMT

Thank you Robert! That was the issue, definitely would be good to have the documentation reflect that.

The current document reads:

"Search expression to filter the rulebase. The provided text should be exactly the same as it would be given in Smart Console. The logical operators in the expression ('AND', 'OR') should be provided in capital letters."

The "exactly the same as it would be given in Smart Console" is what was throwing me off since I wasn't using any of the operators in the Console.

Thanks again for the help!

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Linus_Espach — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:55:02 GMT

Hi Dutch_Arling,

I have problems, when working with NSX-Security-Groups:

mode: Packet src:1.2.3.4 dst:4.3.2.1 svc:12345

does not match the corresponding security-group, even though destination 4.3.2.1 is included in <My_Sec_Group>

I have to filter for:

mode: Packet src:1.2.3.4 dst:"My_Sec_Group" svc:12345

to find the corresponding rule.

The other way round (I search for a Group but have a rule with a fix IP) neither works.

Is there a fix on this?

Best regards,

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Niek-Vlessert — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:33:10 GMT

This is a somewhat old post, but this behaviour seems to still be the case in API 1.9 and the latest smart console. When using packet mode it doesn't include the data center objects. When using general, it will, but then rules with any won't show up in the results, so both situations won't reflect what will actually happen with the packet. I carefully looked through the API settings, but I can't get it to work. I could try to combine both results in my Checkpoint rule search webinterface, but I'm not sure what kind of trouble I'll then run into. 😉

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Tal_Paz-Fridman — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:27:41 GMT

I reproduced the issue in my lab and opened an issue for relevant R&D owner.

Will monitor to see when it is fixed.

Best regards

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Niek-Vlessert — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 09:47:46 GMT

Hi,

Any news from the developers? I can also start a ticket through our Diamond support contract, if it's useful. But I guess the missing data center objects in the results when using packet mode is simply a bug, the developer probably will see the need to fix this anyway. The missing any objects when not using packet mode and also not having the option to include them anyway is a weird missing feature to me, but I don't have the whole overview, maybe a performance thing.

Regards!

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

PhoneBoy — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:54:21 GMT

Recommend opening a TAC case in parallel.
@Tal_Paz-Fridman can you provide the bug ID you opened?

Re: Packet Mode, a new way of searching through your security policy in R80.10

Tal_Paz-Fridman — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 11:42:12 GMT

PMTR-89197

Hi @dovb - can this be added to one of the upcoming JHFs?

Thanks

Tal