Hi!
I am posting this in ebtables and iptables mailing lists since I think it might have to do with both.
I have an interesting problem that I tried to solve for a while now. I am trying to make a wavelan gateway much like nocat but with a small twist. I want it to be able to forward packets with real ip:s as well as nat:ed ip:s.
When I set it up it does usually work for a few minutes then the bridged addresses start giving me a hard time. It works just fine if I open up a path through the gateway for them but I want to have some kind of authentication system (web) for the uses before they get out into the world freely. So when I connect a computer it gets an ip-address, if it gets a real ip it can talk to the gateway computer (for a while) then after a while it can't anymore.
I have tried pinging the box with the real ip, after it stopped being able to talk to the gateway box, from the gateway box and what I see is that the gateway box sends out the icmp requests on the wrong interface even though I can see that it knows that the mac address of the box it pings is on the other interface with brctl showmacs br0.
For nat:ed addresses I haven't noticed any problems so far.
The internet is connected to eth0 and the wavelan is connected to eth1.
The script I use looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
#Some parameters (the 10 addresses here represent real addresses on the #net)
DHCPSERVER=10.0.0.10
NAMESERVER=10.0.0.10
NAMESERVER2=10.0.0.11
OUTIP=10.0.0.5
NATNET=192.168.50.0/24
#A second interface to use as gateway for the nat ifconfig br0:1 192.168.50.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
#The DHCP relay agent for some fancy scripting in the dhcpd.conf file on #the real DHCP server killall dhcrelay dhcrelay -i br0 -a -d -A 1400 $DHCPSERVER &
#Flush all rules iptables --flush iptables --table nat --flush iptables --delete-chain iptables --table nat --delete-chain ebtables -F ebtables -t broute -F
#Set some default actions iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP ebtables -P FORWARD DROP
#DHCP stuff so that the dhcrelay only relay inside requests
ebtables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff -p IPv4 --ip-prot udp --ip-dport 67:68 -j DROP
#fixing for some stupid boxes that answer that they have all private #addresses ebtables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p arp --arp-ip-src $NATNET -j DROP
#Accept everything from the outside to the inside ebtables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
#Letting dns requests trough
ebtables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p IPv4 --ip-dst $NAMESERVER --ip-proto udp --ip-dport 53 -j ACCEPT
ebtables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p IPv4 --ip-dst $NAMESERVER2 --ip-proto udp --ip-dport 53 -j ACCEPT
ebtables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p ARP --arp-ip-dst $NAMESERVER -j ACCEPT
ebtables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p ARP --arp-ip-dst $NAMESERVER2 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -d $NAMESERVER -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -d $NAMESERVER2 -j ACCEPT
#More from the outside iptables -A FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-in eth0 -j ACCEPT
#Accept everything else into the machine iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT
#More DHCP stuff
iptables -I INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 67:68 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -m udp -p udp --dport 67:68 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -m physdev --physdev-in eth0 -m udp -p udp --dport 67:68 -s $DHCPSERVER -j ACCEPT
#Masquerading
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -s $NATNET -j SNAT --to-source $OUTIP
#Redirect web traffic
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT
#Start forwarding in the kernel echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
And then I use these short scripts to open up and close traffic for people:
#open
ebtables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth1 -s $MACADDRESS -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -s $IPADDRESS -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -s $IPADDRESS -j ACCEPT
#close
ebtables -t filter -D FORWARD -i eth1 -s $MACADDRESS -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -s $IPADDRESS -j ACCEPT
iptables -D FORWARD -s $IPADDRESS -j ACCEPT
I must do something wrong, does anyone know what?
Here are some additional facts, I run fedora core 2 on the box using the 2.6.10-1.8_FC2smp kernel the networkcards are "Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller".
Sorry for the confused mail.
I would be very happy if someone can solve my problem or atleast give me a pointer in the right direction.
/Mikael
