From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@gmail.com>
Cc: xdp-newbies@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Redirect packet back to host stack after AF_XDP?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87len8exfc.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK3+h2zpbpfTV31XU5Vr2kb5F0=zE5z9gMyb6Bu7LBuHQxEBMA@mail.gmail.com>
Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 2:53 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > If I have an user space stack like mTCP works on top of AF_XDP as tcp
>> > stateful packet filter to drop tcp packet like tcp syn/rst/ack flood
>> > or other tcp attack, and redirect good tcp packet back to linux host
>> > stack after mTCP filtering, is that possible?
>>
>> Not really, no. You can inject it using regular userspace methods (say,
>> a TUN device), or using AF_XDP on a veth device. But in both cases the
>> packet will come in on a different interface, so it's not really
>> transparent. And performance is not great either.
>>
> I see
>
>> In general, if you want to filter traffic before passing it on to the
>> kernel, the best bet is to implement your filtering in BPF and run it as
>> an XDP program.
>>
> I read about this
> https://eric-keller.github.io/papers/2020/HybridNetworkStack_ieee_nfvsdn2020_slides.pdf,
> thought that is good idea to run mTCP on top of AF_XDP as anti DDOS
> tool
Right, that slide deck seems awfully hand-wavy about how they're getting
packets back into the kernel, though... I guess you could ask the author
how they're doing it? :)
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-14 20:49 Redirect packet back to host stack after AF_XDP? Vincent Li
2022-12-14 22:53 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-12-15 1:57 ` Vincent Li
2022-12-15 11:08 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2022-12-15 18:52 ` Vincent Li
2022-12-17 2:52 ` Vincent Li
2023-01-02 11:33 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-09 21:28 ` Vincent Li
2023-01-10 15:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-10 16:54 ` Vincent Li
2023-01-10 23:27 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-11 0:11 ` Vincent Li
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