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NTP Pass through PIX525

amexadmin
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We have servers which we want to get clocking info from public NTP servers on the net.

How do we configure our firewall to allow NTP traffic to pass through?

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Jon Marshall
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Are you restricting traffic on the inside interface of your pix ?

If so you will need to allow through requests to an NTP server

object-group network servers

network-object host 192.168.5.10

network-object host 192.168.5.11

object-group network NTP_servers

network-object host x.x.x.x

network-object host x.x.x.x

access-list inside_out permit udp object-group servers object-group NTP_servers eq 123

This will allow outbound requests to external NTP servers. The return packets should be allowed in because of the stateful nature of the pix (pseudo-stateful in terms of UDP).

If you are not restricting outbound access then you shouldn't need to do anything.

Note - the above assumes that you have all your NAT setup correctly.

Jon

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