Re: Multi ISP router/firewall ...

[Pierre JUHEN <pierre.juhen@wanadoo.fr>]

Suggested reading : http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/nano.txt

It explains how the routing is done.

Using the ROUTE patch, you force the routing outside the 
routing table.

When a packet comes back on an established connection,
the kernel lookup in the cache, with the input interface 
as part of the matching.

Since in the cache, you have the other interface (ISP1)
for this connection, it doesn't route the packet.

You should use something else than the ROUTE target, for example
what is explained in nano.txt.



> Message du 27/03/07 14:54
> De : "Ray Leach" <spoons@rchq.co.za>
> A : "Netfilter" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
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> Objet : Multi ISP router/firewall ...
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I've been trying to configure a router/firewall with 5 zones (2 of which
> are ISP links) unsuccessfully.
> 
> So far I've managed to patch the kernel with the ROUTE target, and I've
> got rules as follows:
> 
> FORWARD chain filter table:
> ACCEPT     0    --  ethxx0 eth4    10.0.0.0/24    0.0.0.0/0           
> ACCEPT     0    --  eth4   ethxx0  0.0.0.0/0      10.0.0.0/24
> 
> FORWARD chain mangle table:
> ROUTE      tcp  --  *      *       10.0.0.67    !192.168.1.0/24      tcp
> dpts:80:90 ROUTE oif:eth4 continue
> 
> 
> POSTROUTING chain nat table:
> SNAT       0    --  *      eth4    0.0.0.0/0    0.0.0.0/0  to:10.1.0.2
> 
> 
> ethxx0 is my internal LAN
> eth4 is my 2nd ISP connection
> 10.0.0.67 is my workstation
> 10.1.0.2 is the ip bound to eth4
> 
> The other ISP link is working, we host around 12 websites on servers in
> our DMZ, we have outgoing web browsing, email, MSN, etc. using various
> nat rules for that interface, they all work.
> 
> I can see using tcpdump that the packets are leaving my workstation,
> being mangles to change the route, going out the 2nd ISP link, coming
> back into the 2nd ISP link, but then they disappear.
> 
> My forwarding rules as shown above do not show any traffic.
> 
> This has me stumped.
> 
> As I've stated, I have nat (both SNAT and DNAT) working on the other ISP
> interface on the same machine.
> 
> Where should I start looking?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ray
> -- 
> Raymond Leach
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