This Master's thesis is focused on the IPv6 protocol implementation in a business environment. The thesis theoretically describes parts of the protocol which are then used in a real environment with respect to maximal compatibility and security. The thesis deals with hardware components, router configuration on FreeBSD OS, and switch configuration with RouterOS. The thesis also proposes how to monitor the network.

The main object of this thesis was to design a computer network for small and medium companies which will be made among others from network server providing simple network control. The next task was to provide internet connection to subscribers of local area network, their security and access to common services. There had been discussed the choice of distribution of Linux operation system with regarding to demanded services, stability and long lasting operation in theoretical part. One part of the work is a theoretic preliminary to separate services, to the purpose of their using and to their weaknesses. The practical part deals with an installation and configuration of Debian operating system, launching the base services and the setting of selected monitoring programs.

Diploma thesis deals with four laboratory tasks in simulation environment GNS3. Designed tasks are primarily focused on comparison of IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. In the first task the subject is concerned about OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 routing protocols. Next themes are transit techniques like NAT-PT and tunneling like GRE and 6to4. The second task is focused on configuration of routing protocols like EIGRP and EIGRPv6. Next sections are concerned about DHCP and ICMP protocols within IPv4 and IPv6 protocol suits. The third task is primarily focused on security relations of protocol suite IPv6. It contains OSPFv3 authentication, access lists and Cisco stateful IOS firewall. Content of the fourth task is protocol MPLS. First part of this task is concerned about basic configuration of this protocol and second part is focused on MPLS within IPv6 environment. All tasks contain test questions and individual part task.

For high-speed (e.g. more than 1 Gbit/s) filtration of network traffic there are available many of proprietary hardware solutions nowadays. But there are also a couple of free licensed projects that are specialized in high-speed packet processing on common hardware. The goal of thesis is to find such projects, verify that there are filtering tools based on these projects, try to filter 10Gbit/s network traffic by these tools and test them against various filtration settings. Implementation of packet filter that could be used for filtration of network traffic up to 10Gbit/s speed should be the output of this thesis.

Dieser Vortrag gibt eine kleine Uebersicht ueber die Einsatzmoeglichkeiten von Linux im Netz - sowohl als Client als auch als Server.

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Dans le domaine des réseaux, deux précieux objectifs doivent être atteints, à savoir la QoS et la sécurité, plus particulièrement lorsqu’il s’agit des réseaux à caractère critique et à fortes contraintes temporelles. Malheureusement, un conflit existe : tandis que la QoS œuvre à réduire les temps de traitement, les mécanismes de sécurité quant à eux requièrent d’importants temps de traitement et causent, par conséquent, des délais et dégradent la QoS. Par ailleurs, les systèmes temps réel, la QoS et la sécurité ont très souvent été étudiés séparément, par des communautés différentes. Dans le contexte des réseaux avioniques de données, de nombreux domaines et applications, de criticités différentes, échangent mutuellement des informations, souvent à travers des passerelles. Il apparaît clairement que ces informations présentent différents niveaux de sensibilité en termes de sécurité et de QoS. Tenant compte de cela, le but de cette thèse est d’accroître la robustesse des futures générations de réseaux avioniques de données en contrant les menaces de sécurité et évitant les ruptures de trafic de données. A cet effet, nous avons réalisé un état de l’art des mécanismes de sécurité, de la QoS et des applications à contraintes temporelles. Nous avons, ensuite étudié la nouvelle génération des réseaux avioniques de données. Chose qui nous a permis de déterminer correctement les différentes menaces de sécurité. Sur la base de cette étude, nous avons identifié à la fois les exigences de sécurité et de QoS de cette nouvelle génération de réseaux avioniques. Afin de les satisfaire, nous avons proposé une architecture de passerelle de sécurité tenant compte de la QoS pour protéger ces réseaux avioniques et assurer une haute disponibilité en faveur des données critiques. Pour assurer l’intégration des différentes composantes de la passerelle, nous avons développé une table de session intégrée permettant de stocker toutes les informations nécessaires relatives aux sessions et d’accélérer les traitements appliqués aux paquets (filtrage à états, les traductions d’adresses NAT, la classification QoS et le routage). Cela a donc nécessité, en premier lieu, l'étude de la structure existante de la table de session puis, en second lieu, la proposition d'une toute nouvelle structure répondant à nos objectifs. Aussi, avons-nous présenté un algorithme permettant l’accès et l’exploitation de la nouvelle table de session intégrée. En ce qui concerne le composant VPN IPSec, nous avons détecté que le trafic chiffré par le protocole ESP d’IPSec ne peut pas être classé correctement par les routeurs de bordure. Afin de surmonter ce problème, nous avons développé un protocole, Q-ESP, permettant la classification des trafics chiffrés et offrant les services de sécurité fournis par les protocoles AH et ESP combinés. Plusieurs techniques de gestion de bande passante ont été développées en vue d’optimiser la gestion du trafic réseau. Pour évaluer les performances offertes par ces techniques et identifier laquelle serait la plus appropriée dans notre cas, nous avons effectué une comparaison basée sur le critère du délai, par le biais de tests expérimentaux. En dernière étape, nous avons évalué et comparé les performances de la passerelle de sécurité que nous proposons par rapport à trois produits commerciaux offrant les fonctions de passerelle de sécurité logicielle en vue de déterminer les points forts et faibles de notre implémentation pour la développer ultérieurement. Le manuscrit s’organise en deux parties : la première est rédigée en français et représente un résumé détaillé de la deuxième partie qui est, quant à elle, rédigée en anglais. / QoS and security are two precious objectives for network systems to attain, especially for critical networks with temporal constraints. Unfortunately, they often conflict; while QoS tries to minimize the processing delay, strong security protection requires more processing time and causes traffic delay and QoS degradation. Moreover, real-time systems, QoS and security have often been studied separately and by different communities. In the context of the avionic data network various domains and heterogeneous applications with different levels of criticality cooperate for the mutual exchange of information, often through gateways. It is clear that this information has different levels of sensitivity in terms of security and QoS constraints. Given this context, the major goal of this thesis is then to increase the robustness of the next generation e-enabled avionic data network with respect to security threats and ruptures in traffic characteristics. From this perspective, we surveyed the literature to establish state of the art network security, QoS and applications with time constraints. Then, we studied the next generation e-enabled avionic data network. This allowed us to draw a map of the field, and to understand security threats. Based on this study we identified both security and QoS requirements of the next generation e-enabled avionic data network. In order to satisfy these requirements we proposed the architecture of QoS capable integrated security gateway to protect the next generation e-enabled avionic data network and ensure the availability of critical traffic. To provide for a true integration between the different gateway components we built an integrated session table to store all the needed session information and to speed up the packet processing (firewall stateful inspection, NAT mapping, QoS classification and routing). This necessitates the study of the existing session table structure and the proposition of a new structure to fulfill our objective. Also, we present the necessary processing algorithms to access the new integrated session table. In IPSec VPN component we identified the problem that IPSec ESP encrypted traffic cannot be classified appropriately by QoS edge routers. To overcome this problem, we developed a Q-ESP protocol which allows the classifications of encrypted traffic and combines the security services provided by IPSec ESP and AH. To manage the network traffic wisely, a variety of bandwidth management techniques have been developed. To assess their performance and identify which bandwidth management technique is the most suitable given our context we performed a delay-based comparison using experimental tests. In the final stage, we benchmarked our implemented security gateway against three commercially available software gateways. The goal of this benchmark test is to evaluate performance and identify problems for future research work. This dissertation is divided into two parts: in French and in English respectively. Both parts follow the same structure where the first is an extended summary of the second.

Economic incentives and the need to efficiently deliver Internet have led to the growth of Internet eXchange Points (IXPs), i.e., the interconnection networks through which a multitude of possibly competing network entities connect to each other with the goal of exchanging traffic. At IXPs, the exchange of traffic between two or more member networks is dictated by the Border gateway Protocol (BGP), i.e., the inter-domain routing protocol used by network operators to exchange reachability information about IP prefix destinations. There is a common “honest-closed-world” assumption at IXPs that two IXP members exchange data traffic only if they have exchanged the corresponding reachability information via BGP. This state of affairs severely hinders security as any IXP member can send traffic to another member without having received a route from that member. Filtering traffic according to BGP routes would solve the problem. However, IXP members can install filters but the number of filtering rules required at a large IXP can easily exceed the capacity of the network devices. In addition, an IXP cannot filter this type of traffic as the exchanged BGP routes between two members are not visible to the IXP itself. In this thesis, we evaluated the design space between reactive and proactive approaches for guaranteeing consistency between the BGP control-plane and the data-plane. In a reactive approach, an IXP member operator monitors, collects, and analyzes the incoming traffic to detect if any illegitimate traffic exists whereas, in a proactive approach, an operator configures its network devices to filter any illegitimate traffic without the need to perform any monitoring. We focused on proactive approaches because of the increased security of the IXP network and its inherent simplified network management. We designed and implemented a solution to this problem by leveraging the emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm, which enables the programmability of the forwarding tables by separating the control- and data-planes. Our approach only installs rules in the data-plane that allow legitimate traffic to be forwarded, dropping anything else. As hardware switches have high performance but low memory space, we decided to make also use of software switches.  A “heavy-hitter” module detects the forwarding rules carrying most of the traffic and installs them into the hardware switch. The remaining forwarding rules are installed into the software switches. We evaluated the prototype in an emulated testbed using the Mininet virtual network environment. We analyzed the security of our system with the help of static verification tests, which confirmed compliance with security policies. The results reveal that with even just 10% of the rules installed in the hardware switch, the hardware switch directly filterss 95% of the traffic volume with non-uniform Internet-like traffic distribution workloads. We also evaluated the latency and throughput overheads of the system, though the results are limited by the accuracy of the emulated environment. The scalability experiments show that, with 10K forwarding rules, the system takes around 40 seconds to install and update the data plane. This is due to inherent slowness of the emulated environment and limitations of the POX controller, which is coded in Python. / Ekonomiska incitament och behovet av att effektivt leverera Internet har lett till tillväxten av Internet eXchange Points (IXP), dvs de sammankopplingsnät genom vilka en mängd möjligen konkurrerande nätverksenheter förbinder varandra med målet att utbyta trafik. Vid IXPs dikteras utbytet av trafik mellan två eller flera medlemsnät av gränsgatewayprotokollet (BGP), dvs det inter-domänroutingprotokollet som används av nätoperatörer för att utbyta tillgänglighetsinformation om IP-prefixdestinationer. Det finns ett gemensamt antagande om "honest-closed-world" vid IXP, att två IXP-medlemmar endast utbyter datatrafik om de har bytt ut motsvarande tillgänglighetsinformation via BGP. Detta tillstånd försvårar allvarligt säkerheten eftersom varje IXP-medlem kan skicka trafik till en annan medlem utan att ha mottagit en rutt från den medlemmen. Filtrering av trafik enligt BGP-vägar skulle lösa problemet. IXPmedlemmar kan dock installera filter men antalet filtreringsregler som krävs vid en stor IXP kan enkelt överskrida nätverksenheternas kapacitet. Dessutom kan en IXP inte filtrera denna typ av trafik eftersom de utbytta BGP-vägarna mellan två medlemmar inte är synliga för IXP-enheten själv. I denna avhandling utvärderade vi utrymmet mellan reaktiva och proaktiva metoder för att garantera överensstämmelse mellan BGP-kontrollplanet och dataplanet. I ett reaktivt tillvägagångssätt övervakar, samlar och analyserar en inkommande trafik en IXP-medlem för att upptäcka om någon obehörig trafik finns, medan en operatör konfigurerar sina nätverksenheter för att filtrera någon obehörig trafik utan att behöva övervaka. Vi fokuserade på proaktiva tillvägagångssätt på grund av den ökade säkerheten för IXP-nätverket och dess inneboende förenklad nätverkshantering. Vi konstruerade och genomförde en lösning på detta problem genom att utnyttja det nya SDN-paradigmet (Software Defined Networking), vilket möjliggör programmerbarheten hos vidarebefordringsborden genom att separera kontroll- och dataplanerna. Vårt tillvägagångssätt installerar bara regler i dataplanet som tillåter legitim trafik att vidarebefordras, släppa allt annat. Eftersom hårdvaruomkopplare har hög prestanda men lågt minne, bestämde vi oss för att även använda programvaruomkopplare. En "heavy-hitter" -modul detekterar vidarebefordringsreglerna som transporterar större delen av trafiken och installerar dem i hårdvaruomkopplaren. De återstående spolningsreglerna installeras i programvaruomkopplarna. Vi utvärderade prototypen i en emulerad testbädd med hjälp av virtuella nätverksmiljö Mininet. Vi analyserade säkerheten för vårt system med hjälp av statiska verifieringsprov, vilket bekräftade överensstämmelse med säkerhetspolicyerna. Resultaten visar att med bara 10% av de regler som installerats i hårdvaruomkopplaren filtrerar hårdvaruomkopplaren direkt 95% av trafikvolymen med ojämn Internetliknande trafikfördelningsarbete. Vi utvärderade också latens- och genomströmningsomkostnaderna för systemet, även om resultaten begränsas av noggrannheten hos den emulerade miljön. Skalbarhetsexperimenten visar att med 10K-vidarebefordringsregler tar systemet cirka 40 sekunder för att installera och uppdatera dataplanet. Detta beror på inneboende långsamma emulerade miljöer och begränsningar av POX-kontrollern, som kodas i Python.

Au cours des dernières années, les réseaux de type (NDN) sont devenus une des architectures réseau les plus prometteuses. Pour être adopté à l'échelle d'Internet, NDN doit résoudre les problèmes inhérents à l'Internet actuel. La fuite d’informations fait partie de ces problèmes, et il est très important d’évaluer ce risque pour les réseaux de type NDN. La thèse se propose d'évaluer ce risque. En supposant (i) qu'un ordinateur appartient au réseau d'une entreprise basée sur une architecture NDN, (ii) que l'ordinateur a déjà été compromis par un support malveillant, et (iii) que la société installe un pare-feu, la thèse évalue la situation dans laquelle l’ordinateur infecté tente de divulguer des données à un attaquant externe à l'entreprise. Les contributions de cette thèse sont au nombre de cinq. Tout d'abord, cette thèse propose une attaque par fuite d'informations via un paquet donné et un paquet intérêt propres à NDN. Deuxièmement, afin de remédier à l'attaque fuite d'informations, cette thèse propose un pare-feu basé sur l'utilisation d'une liste blanche et d'une liste noire afin de surveiller et traiter le trafic NDN provenant des consommateurs. Troisièmement, cette thèse propose un filtre de noms NDN pour classifier un nom dans un paquet d'intérêt comme étant légitime ou non. Le filtre de noms peut ainsi réduire le débit par paquet d'intérêt. Cependant, pour adapter la vitesse de l'attaque, les logiciels malveillants peuvent envoyer de nombreux intérêts en très peu de temps. De même, le logiciel malveillant peut exploiter un intérêt avec une information explicite dans le nom (comme peut le faire un message véhiculé par un POST sur HTTP). Cela dépasse alors la portée du filtre de nom proposé et rend le filtre inefficace. Pour prendre en compte le flux de trafic analysé par le pare-feu NDN, cette thèse propose comme quatrième contribution la surveillance du flux NDN à travers le pare-feu. Enfin, afin de traiter les inconvénients du filtre de noms NDN, cette thèse propose un filtre de flux NDN permettant de classer un flux comme légitime ou non. L'évaluation des performances montre que le filtre de flux complète de manière tout à fait performante le filtre de nom et réduit considérablement le débit de fuite d'informations / In recent years, Named Data Networking (NDN) has emerged as one of the most promising future networking architectures. To be adopted at Internet scale, NDN needs to resolve the inherent issues of the current Internet. Since information leakage from an enterprise is one of the big issues even in the Internet and it is very crucial to assess the risk before replacing the Internet with NDN completely, this thesis investigates whether a new security threat causing the information leakage can happen in NDN. Assuming that (i) a computer is located in the enterprise network that is based on an NDN architecture, (ii) the computer has already been compromised by suspicious media such as a malicious email, and (iii) the company installs a firewall connected to the NDN-based future Internet, this thesis focuses on a situation that the compromised computer (i.e., malware) attempts to send leaked data to the outside attacker. The contributions of this thesis are fivefold. Firstly, this thesis proposes an information leakage attack through a Data and through an Interest in NDN. Secondly, in order to address the information leakage attack, this thesis proposes an NDN firewall which monitors and processes the NDN traffic coming from the consumers with the whitelist and blacklist. Thirdly, this thesis proposes an NDN name filter to classify a name in the Interest as legitimate or not. The name filter can, indeed, reduce the throughput per Interest, but to ameliorate the speed of this attack, malware can send numerous Interests within a short period of time. Moreover, the malware can even exploit an Interest with an explicit payload in the name (like an HTTP POST message in the Internet), which is out of scope in the proposed name filter and can increase the information leakage throughput by adopting a longer payload. To take traffic flow to the NDN firewall from the consumer into account, fourthly, this thesis proposes an NDN flow monitored at an NDN firewall. Fifthly, in order to deal with the drawbacks of the NDN name filter, this thesis proposes an NDN flow filter to classify a flow as legitimate or not. The performance evaluation shows that the flow filter complements the name filter and greatly chokes the information leakage throughput

With the fast development of wireless networks and devices, Mobile IP is expected to be used widely so that mobile users can access the Internet anywhere, anytime without interruption. However, some problems, such as firewall traversal and use of private IP addresses, restrict use of Mobile IP. The objective of this thesis is to design original schemes that can enable a mobile node at abroad to access its home network as well as the Internet securely and that can help Mobile IP to be used widely and commercially. Our solutions are secure, efficient, and scalable. They can be implemented and maintained easily. In this thesis, we mainly consider Mobile IPv4, instead of Mobile IPv6. Three research topics are discussed. In each topic, the challenges are investigated and the new solutions are presented. The first research topic solves the firewall traversal problems in Mobile IP. A mobile node cannot access its firewall-protected home network if it fails the authentication by the firewall. We propose that an IPsec tunnel be established between the firewall and the foreign agent for firewall traversal and that an IPsec transport security association be shared by the mobile node and a correspondent node for end-to-end security. The second topic researches further on firewall traversal problems and investigates the way of establishing security associations among network entities. A new security model and a new key distribution method are developed. With the help of the security model and keys, the firewall and the relevant network entities set up IPsec security associations to achieve firewall traversal. A mobile node from a private home network cannot communicate with other hosts with its private home address when it is visiting a public foreign network. A novel and useful solution is presented in the third research topic. We suggest that the mobile node use its Network Access Identifier (NAI) as its identification and obtain a public home address from its home agent. In addition, a new tunnel between the mobile node and its home agent is proposed.