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System hardening vs performance
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OPNsense tends to choose more strict hardening options by default, so when comparing performance between upstream
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standard FreeBSD it's good to know which settings differ and can have an impact on your measurements.
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This document aims to describe (some of) the differences, so when you value performance over security it is more obvious
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which toggles might be worthwhile to change.
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Keep in mind that most of the settings will need a reboot and can be altered using system tunables in :menuselection:`System --> Settings --> Tunables`.
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IPv4 random ID's [net.inet.ip.random_id]
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control IP(v4) IDs generation behaviour.
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This closes a minor information leak which allows remote observers to determine the rate of packet generation on the machine by
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watching the counter. At the same time, on high-speed links, it can decrease the ID reuse cycle greatly.
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IPv6 flow IDs and fragment IDs are always random. (source :code:`man -S 4 inet`)
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Our default is 1 (enabled).
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Spectre and Meltdown
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To mitigate some of the speculative execution vulnerabilities, there are a couple of settings available in FreeBSD.
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More information about the various vulnerabilities and associated patches can be found `here <https://wiki.freebsd.org/SpeculativeExecutionVulnerabilities>`__
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Meltdown mitigation using Page Table Isolation (PTI), although also enabled in FreeBSD it's worth to mention which setting is responsible
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for enabling this feature. To disable PTI set :code:`vm.pmap.pti` to 0. Not all cpu's are vulnerable for Meltdown, in which case PTI can be disabled safely.
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Spectre variant 2, the system offers IBRS-based mitigation on Intel CPUs.
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The IBRS mitigation main disadvantage is the significant performance penalty.
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In OPNsense IBRS is enabled (for Intel) by default by disabling (0) :code:`hw.ibrs_disable`, upstream FreeBSD standard is disabled (1).
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User/group separation (security.bsd)
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Freebsd offers a couple of toggles to tighten security for ordinary users, these likely don't impact performance
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a lot, but these are the ones including descriptions that differ on our end (source :code:`sysctl -d security.bsd`).
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Setting Description
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security.bsd.hardlink_check_gid [0->1] Unprivileged processes cannot create hard links to files owned by other groups
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security.bsd.hardlink_check_uid [0->1] Unprivileged processes cannot create hard links to files owned by other users
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security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug [1->0] Unprivileged processes may use process debugging facilities
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security.bsd.see_other_gids [1->0] Unprivileged processes may see subjects/objects with different real gid
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security.bsd.see_other_uids [1->0] Unprivileged processes may see subjects/objects with different real uid
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security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf [1->0] Unprivileged processes may read the kernel message buffer
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