OK - Here is how I am running tcpdump. Not really much to tell. In one window: tcpdump -i eth1 -n And then in another window: tcpdump -i eth0 -n If I were filtering anything with tcpdump I would be pretty embarrassed. :) eth0 is the interface pointing to the Internet. eth1 is inside. For every several thousand packets that tcpdump shows me on eth1, I see maybe one or two on eth0 when running any traffic at all between the Internet and my proxy ARP'd device. Since these are conversations with a host on the other side of the Internet I should see packets flying across both interfaces. But I don't. I only see packets flying across the inside interface, except for a very small subset that I see on the outside interface. This behavior makes no sense. How is it possible that any connection between my proxy ARP'd host and the Internet works if virtually no traffic is moving across the outside interface???? The obvious answer - it isn't. Traffic must in fact be moving across the outside interface, otherwise my proxy ARP'd device would never see it. So the only possible conclusion is, the traffic must he happening someplace where tcpdump and evidently also the traffic shaping code does not see it. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. Send a bunch of pings from somewhere across the Internet to your proxy ARP'd device and watch your outside interface. I'll bet you don't see them. But your proxy ARP'd device will see them, assuming you have some firewall rules that allow this. It will reply and the requesting host outside the Internet will see the echo reply packets coming back. But your outside firewall interface will look dead even though the echo request/reply packets are clearly flying across it. Look for yourself if you don't believe me. Here is my traffic shaping script. Again, pretty basic stuff - nothing fancy. And it isn't relevant to my issue. TC="/sbin/tc" $TC qdisc del dev $INET_IFACE root $TC qdisc del dev $TRUSTED1_IFACE root $TC qdisc del dev $DMZ_IFACE root $TC qdisc add dev $INET_IFACE root handle 1: prio # This *instantly* creates classes 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 $TC qdisc add dev $TRUSTED1_IFACE root handle 2: prio # This *instantly* creates classes 2:1, 2:2, 2:3 $TC qdisc add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:1 handle 11: pfifo $TC qdisc add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:2 handle 12: pfifo $TC qdisc add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:3 handle 13: pfifo $TC qdisc add dev $TRUSTED1_IFACE parent 2:1 handle 21: pfifo $TC qdisc add dev $TRUSTED1_IFACE parent 2:2 handle 22: pfifo $TC qdisc add dev $TRUSTED1_IFACE parent 2:3 handle 23: pfifo # # This assigns traffic to/from $PUBLIC_VTC1_IP and $PRIVATE_VTC1_IP # to the highest priority band of the queue for the appropriate # interface, and the rest to the next-highest proirity band. # # VTC1 $TC filter add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 1 u32 \ match ip dst $PUBLIC_VTC1_IP flowid 1:1 $TC filter add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 1 u32 \ match ip src $PUBLIC_VTC1_IP flowid 1:1 # VTC2 $TC filter add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 1 u32 \ match ip dst $PUBLIC_VTC2_IP flowid 1:1 $TC filter add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 1 u32 \ match ip src $PUBLIC_VTC2_IP flowid 1:1 # Everyone else $TC filter add dev $INET_IFACE parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 2 u32 \ match ip src 0.0.0.0/0 flowid 1:2 $TC filter add dev $TRUSTED1_IFACE parent 2:0 protocol ip prio 2 u32 \ match ip src 0.0.0.0/0 flowid 2:2 exit > Greg, > >Please, if you want answers, provide enough information for us to help. > >In the absence of any shaping configuration script, it is useless to >speculate about why you see nothing being shaped. I will say that UDP >is not "protocol ip". Neither is ARP nor ICMP. > >In the absence of the parameters you are passing to tcpdump, nothing can >be said about why you are not seeing the expected traffic on the external IF. > >Run 'cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | grep udp' > >There is nothing wrong with your .27 kernel! I have done something >similar to what you seem to be trying to do for years running kernels >from 2.4.25 through .32 and never had any problem at all with proxy ARP >(except for the mental part ;) >-- >gypsy _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc