Pingability between systems in Network Topology Setup

Objective

Create a Network Topology Setup such that System A can ping to both System B and System C. Also, both these systems shouldn’t ping to each other unless any security rule like firewall/firewalld is mentioned.

Project Understanding

Prerequisite (For better understanding)

System A → 192.168.56.206

System B → 192.168.56.209

System C → 192.168.56.210

OS Used → RedHat 8

Step 1:

Let’s check if each system is pinging to each other

System A to System B & System C

System B to System A & System C

System C to System A & System B

Step 2:

• Let’s enable ping operation within the firewalld in both System B & System C. First of all firewalld should be enabled on both systems and the command for the same is mentioned below:

systemctl enable firewalld --now

• In order to enable ping operation within the same, it should be added as a rule in firewalld and could be done by using the command below:

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ssh

• Complete firewalld configuration could be obtained using the command mentioned below

firewall-cmd --list-all

Under services, ssh is specified which indicates that ping has been enabled within firewalld

Step 3:

After enabling ping operation within firewalld, check if both systems are pinging to each other.

System B to System C

System C to System B

Step 4:

Let’s understand the command that could be used to disable ping operation in both the systems as soon as firewalld is stopped. The command used is mentioned below:

• For System B:

systemctl stop firewalld && iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request  -s <System_C_IP_Address> -j DROP

• For System C:

systemctl stop firewalld && iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request  -s <System_B_IP_Address> -j DROP

After executing the above mentioned command, both the systems are unable to ping to each other

System B unable to ping to System C

System C unable to ping to System B

Step 5:

Let’s check if System A is able to ping to both System B & System C

From the above image, System A is able to ping to both System B & System C even though System B & System C are unable to ping to each other.

Objective Accomplished

Thank You !!!

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