On Thursday 01 July 2004 1:03 pm, JOSE MIGUEL MARTINEZ wrote:
> I am injecting packets in a network. I can see this packets from libpcap
> from several machines so the packets are there. The machine supposed to
> receive the packets can see them too in a tcpdump. Besides it answers to
> some of them (syn/ack if I inject tcp syncs) so packets are arriving. The
> tools I use to inject packets are packit, nemesis and others home-made over
> libnet. The problem is that in spite of packets being received they does not
> seem to enter iptables as I cannot LOG or ULOG them in destination machine.
> This does not happen with convencional traffic as pings or tcp connections
> that can be logged normally.
> It seems to be a problem related to "artificially" injected traffic not
> reaching iptables. ¿Is conttrack or some part of iptables realising this
> packets are not legal enough to reach iptables?
Sounds very much like it to me, yes.
I would say it's probably just the normal TCP/IP stack in the Linux kernel,
not specifically netfilter, which is rejecting the packets. Most likely
cause would be a checksum error, I'd guess.
Try capturing a real packet using tcpdump or ethereal (one which comes from a
normal machine and is accepted and processed normally), then try to generate
a fake version of the same packet, and look at the difference between the two
tcpdump outputs - that should show you what's not right about the artificial
packets.
Regards,
Antony.
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