Signed-off-by: Martin Topholm <mph@xxxxxxx> --- extensions/libxt_SYNPROXY.man | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 extensions/libxt_SYNPROXY.man diff --git a/extensions/libxt_SYNPROXY.man b/extensions/libxt_SYNPROXY.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d10561a --- /dev/null +++ b/extensions/libxt_SYNPROXY.man @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +This target will process TCP three-way-handshake parallel in netfilter +context to protect either local or backend system. The netfilter system +will need to be inline because sequence numbers need to be translated. +.TP +\fB\-\-mss\fP \fImaximum segment size\fP +Maximum segment size announced to clients. This must match the backend. +.TP +\fB\-\-wscale\fP \fIwindow scale\fP +Window scale announced to clients. This must match the backend. +.TP +\fB\-\-sack\-perm\fP +Pass client selective acknowledgement option to backend (will be disabled +if not present). +.TP +\fB\-\-timestamps\fP +Pass client timestamp option to backend (will be disabled if not present, +also needed for selective acknowledgement and window scaling). +.PP +Example: +.PP +Determine tcp options used by backend, from an external system +.IP +tcpdump -pni eth0 -c 1 'tcp[tcpflags] == (tcp-syn|tcp-ack)' +.br + port 80 & +.br +telnet 192.0.2.42 80 +.br +18:57:24.693307 IP 192.0.2.42.80 > 192.0.2.43.48757: +.br + Flags [S.], seq 360414582, ack 788841994, win 14480, +.br + options [mss 1460,sackOK, +.br + TS val 1409056151 ecr 9690221, +.br + nop,wscale 9], +.br + length 0 +.PP +Switch tcp_loose mode off, so conntrack will mark out\-of\-flow +packets as state INVALID. +.IP +echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tcp_loose +.PP +Make SYN packets untracked +.IP +iptables \-t raw \-A PREROUTING \-i eth0 \-p tcp \-\-dport 80 + \-\-syn \-j CT \-\-notrack +.PP +Catch UNTRACKED (SYN packets) and INVALID (3WHS ACK packets) states +and send them to SYNPROXY. This rule will respond to SYN packets with +SYN+ACK syncookies, create ESTABLISHED for valid client response (3WHS ACK +packets) and drop incorrect cookies. Flags combinations not expected +during 3WHS will not match and continue (e.g. SYN+FIN, SYN+ACK). +.IP +iptables \-A INPUT \-i eth0 \-p tcp \-\-dport 80 + \-m state \-\-state UNTRACKED,INVALID \-j SYNPROXY + \-\-sack\-perm \-\-timestamp \-\-mss 1460 \-\-wscale 9 +.PP +Drop invalid packets, this will be out\-of\-flow packets that were not +matched by SYNPROXY. +.IP +iptables \-A INPUT \-i eth0 \-p tcp \-\-dport 80 \-m state \-\-state INVALID \-j DROP -- 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
