On Monday 07 May 2012 11:03:28 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 10:20:42AM +0200, Hans Schillstrom wrote: > > On Monday 07 May 2012 00:57:38 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > > Hi Hans, > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Regarding ICMP traffic, I think we can use the ID field for the > > > > > > > hashing as well. Thus, we handle ICMP like other protocols. > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes why not, I can give it a try. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think we wait with this one.. > > > > > > I see. This is easy to add for the conntrack side, but it will require > > > some extra code for the packet-based solution. > > > > Actually I think there is very little gain to spread with type > > and then we must add a user mode possibility to turn it off > > i.e. a --hmark-icmp-type-mask > > > > > Not directly related to this but, I know that your intention is to > > > make this as flexible as possible. However, I still don't find how I > > > would use the port mask feature in any of my setups. Basically, I > > > don't come up with any useful example for this situation. > > > > We have plenty of rules where just source port mask is zero. > > and the dest-port-mask is 0xfffc (or 0xffff) > > 0xffff and 0x0000 means on/off respectively. > > Still curious, how can 0xfffc be useful? That's a special case where an appl is using 4 ports. But in general, have not seen other than "on/off" except for above. > > > > I'm also telling this because I think that ICMP support will be > > > easier to add if port masking is removed. > > > > > > [...] > > > > This is what I have done. > > > > > > > > - I reduced the code size a little bit by combining the hmark_ct_set_htuple_ipvX into one func. > > > > by adding a hmark_addr6_mask() and hmark_addr_any_mask() > > > > Note that using "otuple->src.l3num" as param 1 in both src and dst is not a typo. > > > > (it's not set in the rtuple) > > > > > > Good one, this made the code even smaller. > > > > > > > - Made the if (dst < src) swap() in the hmark_hash() since it should be used by every caller. > > > > > > Not really, you don't need for the conntrack part. The original tuple > > > is always the same, not matter where the packet is coming from. I have > > > removed this again so it only affects packet-based hashing. > > > > Yes original tuple is always the same but not always less than the rtuple. > > If you have two nodes that should produce the same hmark, > > one with conntrack an one without you must make a compare to make it consistent. > > I see, for consistency still makes sense although this seems to me > like still strange configuration. In what scenario would you use two > different approaches? In the way that we use HMARK, in the incomming path there is conntrack disabled in the contrainer, for the outgoing patch i.e. at the payloads there is conntrack used. In that case the --hmark-ct makes life easier. > > > > > - Moved the L3 check a little bit earlier. > > > > > > good. > > > > > > > - changed return values for fragments. > > > > > > With this, you're giving up on trying to classify fragments. Do you > > > really want this? > > > > > > From my point of view, if your firewalls (assuming they are the HMARK > > > classification) are stateless, it still makes sense to me to classify > > > fragments using the XT_HMARK_METHOD_L3_4. > > > > I do agree, it is back to "return 0" again. > > OK. > -- Regards Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
