From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:52:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb0bdc35-7f29-77c7-c013-e88f74772c24@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108210714.12426-1-aconole@redhat.com>
Le 08/11/2019 à 22:07, Aaron Conole a écrit :
> The openvswitch module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
> exposed via netfilter. It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
> DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision. Netfilter can support
> this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
> again after egress. The openvswitch module doesn't have such capability.
>
> Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
> keep the symmetry.
>
> Fixes: 05752523e565 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
In this case, ovs_ct_find_existing() won't be able to find the conntrack, right?
Inverting the tuple to find the conntrack doesn't work anymore with double NAT.
Am I wrong?
Regards,
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-08 21:07 [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack Aaron Conole
2019-11-08 21:07 ` [PATCH net 2/2] act_ct: " Aaron Conole
2019-11-14 14:22 ` Roi Dayan
2019-11-14 14:24 ` Paul Blakey
2019-11-18 21:24 ` Aaron Conole
2019-11-14 16:29 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2019-11-18 21:21 ` Aaron Conole
2019-11-18 22:40 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2019-11-22 20:39 ` Aaron Conole
2019-11-22 20:43 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2019-11-09 22:15 ` [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: " Pravin Shelar
2019-11-18 20:39 ` Aaron Conole
2019-11-25 15:38 ` Aaron Conole
2019-11-26 4:07 ` Pravin Shelar
2019-11-12 8:52 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2019-11-18 21:19 ` Aaron Conole
2019-11-28 8:22 ` Nicolas Dichtel
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