On Monday 23 January 2012 18:01:50 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Hi Hans, > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:49:16AM +0100, Hans Schillstrom wrote: > > On Monday 23 January 2012 10:12:41 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20:15AM +0100, Hans Schillstrom wrote: > > > > The text should clarify that this is valid for the fragments not the "flow" > > > > > > > > > I've got one scenario that may break with this assumption: > > > > > > > > > > 1) your traffic follows one path over router A and B to reach your > > > > > firewall F which requires no fragmentation at all. > > > > I missed the last part here "requires no fragmentation at all" > > > > > > > 2) path to router B becomes broken while there are established flows > > > > > with firewall F. > > > > > 3) router A decides to forward packets to router C, which fragment > > > > > packets because it is using smaller MTU than router A. > > > > > 4) packets arrive to firewall F, then hashing is calculated based on > > > > > addresses, not ports, and you load-sharing becomes inconsistent. > > > > > > > > > > This can rarely happen, but it does, it would break. > > > > > > > > > > To fix this, I think that HMARK requires that you have to specify the > > > > > hashing strategy. If you want to support fragments, use only > > > > > addresses. If you're sure you will not get fragments, use layer 3 and > > > > > layer 4 information. > > > > This can be acomplished by setting --hmark-sp-mask and --hmark-dp-mask to Zero > > Then you don't use port in the hash calc. > > OK, it would be great if we can provide a cleaner interface. The > current behaviour uses layer3-layer4 tuple hashing plus defaulting to > layer3 in case of fragments. > > I'd prefer explicit configuration options: > > --hashmark-method layer3 > use only address for hashing, this is fragment safe. > > --hashmark-method layer3-layer4 > use addresses and ports for hashing, fragments not supported > unless defrag is enabled. > > Still, if you want to support the current behaviour, it should be > something like: > > --hashmark-method layer3-layer4-fragments > use addresses and ports for hashing, for fragments default to > layer3 hashing. Document scenario in which hash consistency > may break. > > The behaviour of the target has to be specified by the configurations. > Defaulting to internal assumptions seems obscure to me. > OK this is resonable, and it makes the fragment problem visible. I'll make the changes to day and have a test run for a couple of days. or should I wait ? Tanks Hans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
