Re: [BUG] SNAT sometimes allows packets to pass through unchanged

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > 
> >> If the connection has already timed out (from conntracks perspective),
> >> it has lost its state. Unless connection pickup is enabled, the packet 
> >> will be marked as INVALID because it doesn't belong to a connection.
> >> You can control dropping of these packets yourself by adding the
> >> appropriate "-m state --state INVALID" rules.
> > 
> > I tried adding a rule to log these unaccounted-for packets.  Nothing 
> > showed up, even when I could see the packets being sent.
> 
> Where (table/chain/position) did you add this rule?

In the first position of the POSTROUTING chain in the nat table.  I
don't remember exactly what rules I used, but at one point I tried
something very much like this:

iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING 1 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -p tcp ! --syn

The counter for this rule remained at 0 even after packets with private 
source addresses were sent through the public interface.

> >> That said, there were
> >> some bugs in the past few releases that caused some bad interaction
> >> between TCP and TCP conntrack (not sure anymore which one of both was
> >> to blame). Its possible that this is the root cause for this, so
> >> you might want to consider a kernel update.
> > 
> > It does sound like the result of a bug.  Do you have any pointers to 
> > patches or locations to check in the source?
> 
> Sorry, there were quite a few patches and I don't remember which
> ones exactly are related.

I tried using 2 6.27 kernel but the problem remained.  Building a later 
version won't be easy because of the need to create the proper config.  
Can you remember in which version these bugs got fixed?

Alan Stern

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